ἄργεμον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Connected to *ἄργος (*árgos) in ἀργεστής (argestḗs, “north-west wind”) and ἀργεννός (argennós, “white”), like ἄνθεμον (ánthemon) to ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”), yet the latter derivation is difficult. Further connected to ἀργός (argós, “white”). Regarding the plant significations this has together with ἀργεμώνη (argemṓnē, “pale poppy, Papaver argemone; agrimony”) been put to Akkadian 𒅈𒂵𒌋𒌋𒉡 (argamannu, “purple”) which has given rise to the names of various purple plants.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ár.ɡe.mon/ → /ˈar.ʝe.mon/ → /ˈar.ʝe.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ár.ɡe.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ɡe.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ʝe.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ʝe.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ʝe.mon/

Noun

ἄργεμον • (árgemon) n (genitive ἀργέμου); second declension

1. (pathology) albugo, a white speck on the eye

   Synonym: λεύκωμᾰ (leúkōma)

2. herb bennet, avens (Geum urbanum)
3. upper part of the fingernail

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄργεμον tò árgemon	τὼ ἀργέμω tṑ argémō	τᾰ̀ ἄργεμᾰ tà árgema
Genitive	τοῦ ἀργέμου toû argémou	τοῖν ἀργέμοιν toîn argémoin	τῶν ἀργέμων tôn argémōn
Dative	τῷ ἀργέμῳ tôi argémōi	τοῖν ἀργέμοιν toîn argémoin	τοῖς ἀργέμοις toîs argémois
Accusative	τὸ ἄργεμον tò árgemon	τὼ ἀργέμω tṑ argémō	τᾰ̀ ἄργεμᾰ tà árgema
Vocative	ἄργεμον árgemon	ἀργέμω argémō	ἄργεμᾰ árgema
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of τὸ ἄργεμον; τοῦ ἀργέμου (Attic)

Related terms

• ἀργεμώνη (argemṓnē)

Further reading

• “ἄργεμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄργεμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄργεμον 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
• Lagarde, Paul de (1889) Übersicht über die im Aramäischen, Arabischen und Hebräischen übliche Bildung der Nomina (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen; 35)‎ (in German), Göttingen: Dieterichsche Verlags-Buchhandlung, page 205 footnote asterisk
• Puhvel, Jaan (1984) Hittite Etymological Dictionary (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 1), volume 1, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton, page 145
• Rabin, Chaim (1963) “Hittite Words in Hebrew”, in Orientalia, volume 32, number 2, →DOI, pages 116–118