Alternative forms

• ᾰ̓γυιᾱ́ (ăguiā́) (less frequent)

Etymology

Mainly a poetic word. Generally considered to be a perfect participle of verb ᾰ̓́γω (ắgō, “I lead”), but without the reduplication. However, this makes little sense as the formation is without a parallel (save archaic ἰδυῖα (iduîa)); more probably a Pre-GreekCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate#ΑΓΥΙΑ word in -υια, like κώδυια (kṓduia)Category:Ancient Greek links with redundant wikilinks#ΑΓΥΙΑ.

Pronunciation

Noun

ἄγυιᾰ • (águiă) f (genitive ἀγυίᾱς)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΑΓΥΙΑCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΑΓΥΙΑCategory:Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms#ΑΓΥΙΑCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΑΓΥΙΑCategory:Ancient Greek first-declension nouns#ΑΓΥΙΑCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension#ΑΓΥΙΑCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΑΓΥΙΑCategory:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΑΓΥΙΑCategory:Pages with entries#ΑΓΥΙΑCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΑΓΥΙΑ; first declension

1. (usually in the plural) street, highway
2. collection of streets, city

Further reading

• “ἄγυια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄγυια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄγυια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄγυια in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄγυια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄγυια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• 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