ἄργελλα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἄργῑλᾰ (árgīlă), ἄργῐλλᾰ (árgĭllă)

Etymology

Related to Albanian ragal (“kennel”). The interchanges ε/ι and λ/λλ clearly point to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ár.ɡel.la/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ɡel.la/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ʝel.la/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ʝel.la/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ʝe.la/

Mark the vowel length of the ambiguous vowels ἄ and α by adding a macron after each one if it is long, or a breve if it is short. By default, Module:grc-pronunciation assumes it is short if unmarked.
[This message shows only in preview mode.]

Noun

ἄργελλᾰ • (árgellă) f (genitive ἀργέλλης); first declension

(in Macedonia) vapour bath, steam bath
Synonym: πῠρῐ́ᾱ (pŭrĭ́ā)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἄργελλᾰ; τῆς ἀργέλλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἄργελλᾰ hē árgellă	τὼ ἀργέλλᾱ tṑ argéllā	αἱ ἄργελλαι hai árgellai
Genitive	τῆς ἀργέλλης tês argéllēs	τοῖν ἀργέλλαιν toîn argéllain	τῶν ἀργελλῶν tôn argellôn
Dative	τῇ ἀργέλλῃ têi argéllēi	τοῖν ἀργέλλαιν toîn argéllain	ταῖς ἀργέλλαις taîs argéllais
Accusative	τὴν ἄργελλᾰν tḕn árgellăn	τὼ ἀργέλλᾱ tṑ argéllā	τᾱ̀ς ἀργέλλᾱς tā̀s argéllās
Vocative	ἄργελλᾰ árgellă	ἀργέλλᾱ argéllā	ἄργελλαι árgellai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἄργελλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἄργελλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἄργελλα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN