Agyrium

Latin

Alternative forms

• Agyrion

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀγύριον (Agúrion), whence also the name of its tyrant, Ἄγυρις (Águris).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈɡy.ri.um/, [äˈɡʏriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈd͡ʒi.ri.um/, [äˈd͡ʒiːrium]

Proper noun

Agyrium n sg (genitive Agyriī or Agyrī); second declension

1. Agira/San Filippo d'Argiriò, a former Sicel city near Enna, Sicily later colonized by the Greeks before its occupation by the Romans, birthplace of Diodorus Siculus

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Agyrium
Genitive	Agyriī Agyrī1
Dative	Agyriō
Accusative	Agyrium
Ablative	Agyriō
Vocative	Agyrium
Locative	Agyriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Agyrinensis
• Agyrīnus

Descendants

• Italian: Agira

References

• “Agȳrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Agyrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Agyrium” on page 101/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)