Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• παγά ‎(pagá) (Doric)

Noun

πηγή • ‎(pēgḗ) f ‎(genitive πηγῆς); first declension

1. spring, well, fountain
2. (in the plural) source of a river
3. vein (of a mineral)
4. source, origin, cause

Usage notes

Often in plural.

Inflection

Derived terms

• πηγαῖος ‎(pēgaîos, “of or from a well”, adj)

References

• πηγή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πηγή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πηγή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πηγή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «πηγή» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4077”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beginning idem, page 71.
  • brook idem, page 101.
  • cause idem, page 118.
  • commencement idem, page 147.
  • element idem, page 265.
  • flood idem, page 329.
  • fountain idem, page 341.
  • origin idem, page 579.
  • root idem, page 721.
  • seed idem, page 749.
  • shower idem, page 770.
  • source idem, page 797.
  • spring idem, page 805.
  • starting point idem, page 812.
  • stream idem, page 824.
  • tear idem, page 858.
  • vein idem, page 946.
• 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

πηγή • ‎(pigí) f ‎(plural πηγές)

1. source, origin (person, place, thing)

   πλουτοπαραγωγικές πηγές‎ ― ploutoparagogikés pigés ― sources of wealth

2. water source, spring

   Tο ποτάμι έχει τις πηγές του στο βουνό.‎ ― To potámi échei tis pigés tou sto vounó. ― The river has its source in the mountains.

Declension

Synonyms

• (water source): ανάβρα f ‎(anávra)
• (water source): βρυσομάνα f ‎(vrysomána)
• (water source): κεφαλάρι n ‎(kefalári)
• (water source): κεφαλόβρυσο n ‎(kefalóvryso)
• (water source): νερομάνα f ‎(neromána)

Related terms

• πηγάδι n ‎(pigádi, “well”)
• πηγαίος ‎(pigaíos, “of or from a well”, adj)

Homonyms

• πυγή f ‎(pygí, “buttocks”)