Greek

Proper noun

Πύργος • ‎(Pýrgos) m

1. Pyrgos, a town of in the Peloponnese

Declension

External links

• Πύργος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

Ancient Greek

Noun

πύργος • ‎(púrgos) m ‎(genitive πύργου); second declension

1. tower, watchtower
2. (in the plural) towered wall
3. the part of the house where women live
4. castle, fortress, bulwark
5. (military) division, column

Inflection

References

• πύργος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πύργος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πύργος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πύργος» 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
• «πύργος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πύργος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4444”, 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.
  • belfry idem, page 72.
  • bulwark idem, page 103.
  • defence idem, page 204.
  • harbour idem, page 385.
  • keep idem, page 467.
  • pinnacle idem, page 614.
  • protection idem, page 653.
  • refuge idem, page 685.
  • tower idem, page 883.
  • turret idem, page 902.
• 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

πύργος • ‎(pýrgos) m ‎(plural πύργοι)

1. tower

   κεντρικός πύργος (central tower, castle keep)

2. (chess) rook

Declension