Argive

See also: argive

English

Etymology

From Latin Argīvus, from Ancient Greek Ἀργεῖος (Argeîos).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹɡaɪv/, IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹd͡ʒaɪv/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɡaɪv/, IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdʒaɪv/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɐːɡɒev/, IPA^(key): /ˈɐːdʒɒev/

Adjective

Argive (comparative more Argive, superlative most Argive)

1. (Ancient Greece) Of, from or pertaining to Argos.
2. (Ancient Greece, loosely) Greek.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXIII, page 40:

     […] And many an old philosophy
     ⁠On Argive heights divinely sang,
     ⁠And round us all the thicket rang
     To many a flute of Arcady.

Translations

of, from or pertaining to Argos

• Greek: αργείτικος (el) (argeítikos), αργίτικος (el) (argítikos), αργείος (el) (argeíos), αργίτης (el) (argítis)
• Portuguese: argivo

Noun

Argive (plural Argives)

1. (Ancient Greece) An inhabitant of Argos.
   • 1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars‎^[1], translation of original by Herodotus:

     The Greeks generally think that this fate came upon him because he induced the Pythoness to pronounce against Demaratus; the Athenians differ from all others in saying that it was because he cut down the sacred grove of the goddesses when he made his invasion by Eleusis; while the Argives ascribe it to his having taken from their refuge and cut to pieces certain argives who had fled from battle into a precinct sacred to Argus, where Cleomenes slew them, burning likewise at the same time, through irreverence, the grove itself.

2. (Ancient Greece, poetic) In the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and in later classical epics, an alternate name for an Achaean, or Greek in general.

Synonyms

(person from Argos):

• Argot

Translations

person from Argos

• Greek: Αργείος (el) m (Argeíos), Αργείτης (el) m (Argeítis), Αργίτης (el) m (Argítis)
• Portuguese: argivo m

Anagrams

• rivage, virgae

Latin

Adjective

Argīve

1. vocative masculine singular of Argīvus