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|Definition=οῦ, ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[field]], mostly in pl., [[fields]], [[lands]], <span class="bibl">Il.23.832</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.4.757</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.149</span>, etc.; opp. <b class="b3">κῆποι</b>, Theopomp. Hist. <span class="bibl">89</span>; sg., [[farm]], <span class="bibl">Od.24.205</span>; also in pl., <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>2.4.1</span>:—[[tilled land]], opp. fallow, ἀγρὸς καὶ ἀργός, Ἀθηνᾶ <span class="bibl">20.167</span> (Erythrae). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[country]], opp. town, <span class="bibl">Od.17.182</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>884</span>, etc.; ἀγρὸν τὰν πόλιν ποιεῖς <span class="bibl">Epich.169</span>; <b class="b3">ἀγρῷ</b> [[in the country]], <span class="bibl">Od.11.188</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπ' ἀγροῦ</b> in [[the country]], <span class="bibl">1.190</span>, <span class="bibl">22.47</span>; ἐπ' ἀγρὸῦ νόσφι πόληος <span class="bibl">1.185</span>; in pl., κατὰ πτόλιν ἠὲ κατ' ἀγρούς <span class="bibl">17.18</span>; ἐν οἴκοις ἢ 'ν ἀγροῖς <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">OT</span>112</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπ' ἀγρῶν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">1049</span>; ἀγροῖσι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>313</span>; τὸν ἐξ ἀγρῶν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OT</span>1051</span>; τὰ ἐξ ἀγρῶν <span class="bibl">Th.2.13</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">14</span>; κατ' ἀγρούς <span class="bibl">Cratin. 318</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>881c</span>; οἰκεῖν ἐν ἀγρῷ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>387.2</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ ἐν ἀγρῷγιγνόμενα</b> [[fruits]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.9.4</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">An.</span>5.3.9</span>:—prov., <b class="b3">οὐδὲν ἐξ ἀγροῦ λέγεις, ἀγροῦπλέως</b>, i.e. boorish, Suid., Hsch.—Rare in later Greek, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Marc.</span> 15.21</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PAmh.</span>2.134.5</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>967</span>. [ᾰ by nature, so always in Com., exc.<span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span> 579</span>, <span class="bibl">Philem.116</span>; ᾱγρόθεν in Alc. Com.<span class="bibl">19</span> is paratrag.] (Cf. Skt. [[ájras]] 'plain', prob. fr. [[aj]] 'drive' (cf. [[ἄγω]]), i.e. [[pasture]].) </span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[field]]<br />Other forms: Myc. [[akoro]]; [[akoroqoro]] \/[[Agroqolos]]\/.<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">ἄγροικος</b> [[who lives in the country]] (<b class="b3">ἀγρο-Ϝοικ-</b>); in modern Greek this gave an oppositum <b class="b3">γροικός</b> = <b class="b3">νοήμων</b>; from this again <b class="b3">γροικῶ</b> [[understand]] (Hatzidakis, Glotta 14, 208f.). <b class="b3">ἄγρωστις</b> < <b class="b2">*h₂eǵro-h₁d-tis</b>, cf. <b class="b3">νῆστις</b>; Meier-Brügger, KZ 103 (1990) 33f.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἄγριος</b> [[agrestis]], [[wild]]. <b class="b3">ἀγροιώτης</b> (Il.) for <b class="b3">ἀγρώτης</b> will have arisen at verse end, Risch 32. On <b class="b3">ἀγρέτης</b> s. [[ἄγρα]]. <b class="b3">ἀγρότερος</b> [[wild]] from <b class="b2">from the field(s)</b> in opposition to cultivated places. <b class="b3">ἄγρυπνος</b> [[who sleeps outside]] developed into [[sleepless]], [[awake]] (cf. <b class="b3">ἄγρ-αυλος</b> <b class="b2">who has his bed\/lair in the field</b>)<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [6] <b class="b2">*h₂eǵros</b><br />Etymology: Old IE word, originally the uncultivated field: Skt. <b class="b2">ájra-</b>, Lat. [[ager]], Germ., Goth. [[akrs]], Arm. [[art]]. Connection with <b class="b2">*agō</b> [[drive]] is probable.