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|Full diacritics=ἄργελλα
|Medium diacritics=ἄργελλα
|Low diacritics=άργελλα
|Capitals=ΑΡΓΕΛΛΑ
|Transliteration A=árgella
|Transliteration B=argella
|Transliteration C=argella
|Beta Code=a)/rgella
|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">vapour bath</b> (Maced.), Suid.</span>
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{{DGE
|dgtxt=-ης, ἡ maced. [[baño de vapor]] Sud.; cf. [[ἄργιλλα]].
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{{etym
|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.?<br />Meaning: <b class="b3">οἴκημα Μακεδονικόν</b>, <b class="b3">ὅπερ θερμαίνοντες λούονται</b> Suid.<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">ἄργιλλα</b>, <b class="b3">ἄργιλα</b> f. <b class="b2">subterranean house</b> (Magna Graecia, Strabo V 244 = Ephor. (fr. 45), cf. Eust. ad D.P. 1166).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: To <b class="b3">ἄργιλλος</b> <b class="b2">white clay</b>? See Kalléris, Anc. Mac. 1, 104. From it Alb. ragáĺ ́cottage, Jokl IF 44, 13ff. Also Pagliaro, Ric. lingu. 1 (1950) 145f.; Hubschmid, Thes. Praerom. 1, 81. The interchange <b class="b3">ε</b>\/<b class="b3">ι</b> and <b class="b3">λ</b>\/<b class="b3">λλ</b> clearly points to a substr. word.
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