ἀγαθός
See also: αγαθός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀγασός (agasós) – Laconian
- ἀζαθός (azathós) – Arcadocypriot
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *əgatʰós, from Proto-Indo-European *m̥ǵh₂-dʰh₁-ós (“made great; whose deeds are great”), from *méǵh₂s (“great”) + *dʰeh₁- (“do”) + *-ós.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ɡa.tʰós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.ɡaˈtʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.ɣaˈθos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.ɣaˈθos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.ɣaˈθos/
Adjective
ᾰ̓γᾰθός • (agathós) m (feminine ᾰ̓γᾰθή, neuter ᾰ̓γᾰθόν); first/second declension
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | ᾰ̓γᾰθός agathós |
ᾰ̓γᾰθή agathḗ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθόν agathón |
ᾰ̓γᾰθώ agathṓ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθᾱ́ agathā́ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθώ agathṓ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθοί agathoí |
ᾰ̓γᾰθαί agathaí |
ᾰ̓γᾰθᾰ́ agathá | |||||
| Genitive | ᾰ̓γᾰθοῦ agathoû |
ᾰ̓γᾰθῆς agathês |
ᾰ̓γᾰθοῦ agathoû |
ᾰ̓γᾰθοῖν agathoîn |
ᾰ̓γᾰθαῖν agathaîn |
ᾰ̓γᾰθοῖν agathoîn |
ᾰ̓γᾰθῶν agathôn |
ᾰ̓γᾰθῶν agathôn |
ᾰ̓γᾰθῶν agathôn | |||||
| Dative | ᾰ̓γᾰθῷ agathôi |
ᾰ̓γᾰθῇ agathêi |
ᾰ̓γᾰθῷ agathôi |
ᾰ̓γᾰθοῖν agathoîn |
ᾰ̓γᾰθαῖν agathaîn |
ᾰ̓γᾰθοῖν agathoîn |
ᾰ̓γᾰθοῖς agathoîs |
ᾰ̓γᾰθαῖς agathaîs |
ᾰ̓γᾰθοῖς agathoîs | |||||
| Accusative | ᾰ̓γᾰθόν agathón |
ᾰ̓γᾰθήν agathḗn |
ᾰ̓γᾰθόν agathón |
ᾰ̓γᾰθώ agathṓ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθᾱ́ agathā́ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθώ agathṓ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθούς agathoús |
ᾰ̓γᾰθᾱ́ς agathā́s |
ᾰ̓γᾰθᾰ́ agathá | |||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓γᾰθέ agathé |
ᾰ̓γᾰθή agathḗ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθόν agathón |
ᾰ̓γᾰθώ agathṓ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθᾱ́ agathā́ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθώ agathṓ |
ᾰ̓γᾰθοί agathoí |
ᾰ̓γᾰθαί agathaí |
ᾰ̓γᾰθᾰ́ agathá | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ᾰ̓γᾰθῶς agathôs |
ᾰ̓γᾰθώτερος agathṓteros |
ᾰ̓γᾰθώτᾰτος agathṓtatos | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Suppletive comparatives: ἀμείνων, ἀρείων, βελτίων, κρείττων, λῴων, φέρτερος | |||||||||||||
Descendants
Further reading
- ἀγαθός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀγαθός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγαθός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀγαθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀγαθός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀγαθός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
- ἀγαθός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G18 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἀγαθός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 7
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