ἄργελλα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄργῑλᾰ (árgīla), ἄργῐλλᾰ (árgilla)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ár.ɡel.la/ → /ˈar.ʝel.la/ → /ˈar.ʝe.la/

• (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/

Noun

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

1. (in Macedonia) vapour bath, steam bath

   Synonym: πῠρῐ́ᾱ (puríā)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἄργελλᾰ; τῆς ἀργέλλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἄργελλᾰ hē árgella	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 árgellan	τὼ ἀργέλλᾱ tṑ argéllā	τᾱ̀ς ἀργέλλᾱς tā̀s argéllās
Vocative	ἄργελλᾰ árgella	ἀργέλλᾱ argéllā	ἄργελλαι árgellai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “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 (2006–2024)
• 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