Ancient Greek

Verb

ἀγανακτέω • ‎(aganaktéō) (Attic, Koine)

1. (intransitive) To feel a violent irritation
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ ὑγρῶν χρήσιος 2
   • 320 CE – 400 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 46.7.8
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 251.C
   1. (of wine, intransitive) to ferment
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.734.E
2. (figuratively) to be grieved, displeased, vexed, annoyed, angry, or discontented, to show outward signs of grief [+sometimes ὅτι ‎(hóti) or εἰ ‎(ei) = that or if ...]
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 287
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 117.D
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1006
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Against Alcibiades 18
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Third Tetralogy 2.1
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Simon 3
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 139
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 194.A
   1. (transitive, intransitive) To be vexed [+dative or rarely accusative or genitive = at something]
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 63.B
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 64.A
      • 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 4.D
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes 1
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, On the Team of Horses 49
      • 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 283.E
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epistles 349.D
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 63.C
      • 55 CE – 135 CE, Epictetus, Enchiridion 4
      • 26 CE – 121 CE, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.66
      • Anecdota Graeca 334
   2. (transitive, intransitive) To be vexed at or with, to be angry at [+dative = someone], [+κατά ‎(katá) or πρός ‎(prós)]
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.3.11
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 28
      • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Diogenes of Oenoanda, Oenoandan Inscription 68
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Timon or The Misanthrope 18
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 62.E

Usage notes

Some authors use the verb as a deponent.

Inflection

References

• ἀγανακτέω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀγανακτέω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀγανακτέω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀγανακτέω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G23”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979