ἄγυια: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ᾶς, ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[street]], [[highway]], chiefly in pl., <span class="bibl">Il.5.642</span>; <b class="b3">σκιόωντό τε πᾶσαι ἀ</b>. <span class="bibl">Od.2.388</span>, etc.; of the paths of the sea, <span class="bibl">11.12</span>; <b class="b3">ἀγυιαῖς</b> [[in the streets]], <span class="bibl">Hom.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>14.5</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>2.58</span>, <span class="bibl">B.3.16</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>715</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ant.</span>1136</span>, <span class="bibl">E. <span class="title">Ba.</span>87</span> (all lyr.): esp. in the phrase κνισᾶν ἀγυιάς <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1320</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Av.</span>1233</span>, <span class="bibl">D.21.51</span>:—rare in Prose, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.4.3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.7</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">3 Ma.</span> 1.20</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἐν ἀγυιᾷ</b>, of documents executed [[in public]] by a notary, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span> 722.12</span> (i A.D.), etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[collection of streets]], [[city]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>9.34</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">N.</span>7.92</span>; πολύπυρος ἀ. <span class="title">Hymn.Is.</span>2. (Quasi-participial form from <b class="b3">ἄγω</b>, cf. [[ἅρπυια]].) [ἄγυιᾰν <span class="bibl">Il.20.254</span> (Aristarch.), cf. Pi <span class="title">N.</span>7.92 codd. vett.; <b class="b3">ἄγυια</b> Ion. and old Att. acc. to Hdn. Gr.<span class="bibl">2.613</span>, <span class="bibl">Eust.1631.29</span>; <b class="b3">ἀγυιά</b>, incorrectly, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>14.21</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἀγυιάν</b> freq. in codd., e.g. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>9.34</span>, X. l.c.]</span>

|etymtx=pl. <b class="b3">ἀγυιαί</b><br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[street]], [[road]] (Il.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Generally considered ptc. pf. without reduplication of <b class="b3">ἄγω</b>. But certainly a substr. word in <b class="b3">-υια</b>, cf. <b class="b3">κώδυια</b>; Szemerényi, Syncope 203ff., Beekes FS Watkins 1998, 25f.