Ancient Greek

Adjective

ἅγιος • ‎(hágios) m ‎(feminine ἁγία, neuter ἅγιον); first/second declension

1. Devoted to the gods
2. Of things: sacred, holy
3. Of people: holy, pious, pure
4. accursed

Inflection

Descendants

• English: hagio-
• French: hagio-
• Greek: αγιο- ‎(agio-)

Related terms

• ἅγος ‎(hágos)
• ἅζομαι ‎(házomai)

References

• ἅγιος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἅγιος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἅγιος» 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
• «ἅγιος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G40”, 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.
  • blessed idem, page 83.
  • hallowed idem, page 381.
  • holy idem, page 403.
  • sacred idem, page 728.
• 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