Ancient Greek

Adjective

ἀγοραῖος • ‎(agoraîos) m ‎(feminine ἀγοραία, neuter ἀγοραῖον); first/second declension

1. in, of, or belonging to the market
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.$6
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 973
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 70
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 297
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausianas Periegeta, Description of Greece 1.15.1
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausianas Periegeta, Description of Greece 5.15.4
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausianas Periegeta, Description of Greece 3.11.9
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 90
   1. (of things)
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 425.C
2. frequenting the market
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.23
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1291.B.19
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1291.A.4
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.93
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.141
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Ways and Means 3.13
   • 100 CE – 200 CE, Aelianus Tacticus, On Tactical Arrays of the Greeks 2.2
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1015
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 347.C
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Characters 6.2
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 17.5
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Aem. 38
   • 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Euerg. 1
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Art of Rhetoric 10.11
   1. (of things) low, mean, common, vulgar
      • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 750
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 471
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1162.B.26
      • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.109.D
3. proper to the market, skilled in, suited to public speaking
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 11
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 13.4.12
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 14.10.21
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 19.38
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, CG 4
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Mark Antony 24
   • 117 CE – 181 CE, Aelius Aristides, Orations 50.94
   • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.36

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: αγοραίος ‎(agoraíos)

References

• ἀγοραῖος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀγοραῖος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀγοραῖος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀγοραῖος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G60”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «ἀγοραῖος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • base idem, page 64.
  • common idem, page 148.
  • lounge idem, page 502.
  • low idem, page 502.
  • vulgar idem, page 958.