1. ἀγανός · aganos — Beekes
ἀγανός [adj.] ‘mild, gentle’ (IL). «ἢ» *ETYM No etymology. The connection with ἄγαμαι or γάνος [n.] ‘splendor’ (Bechtel 1914) is semantically unconvincing. — [Beekes, s.v. ἀγανός, p. 55]
The corpus record
ἀγανός
aganos
mild, gentle
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Where it lives
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
- Odyssey 9 · 1.04/10k
- Iliad 7 · 0.63/10k
- Republic 4 · 0.45/10k
- Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
What it meant
2. ἀγανός · aganos — Beekes
ἀγανός [adj.] ‘admirable, noble’ (11). eETYM Acc. to Schwyzer IF 30 (1912): 430ff., Aeolic = ἀγα-Εός; perhaps related to » ἄγαμαι. An expressive gemination of the Ε has been proposed (e.g. Ruijgh Lingua 25 (1970)). But since a suffix -yo- is doubtful in Greek (cf Chantraine 1933: 124: “le suffixe était mort en grec”), the word may rather be Pre-Greek. — [Beekes, s.v. ἀγανός, p. 56]
3. ἀγανός · aganos — Frisk
ἀγανός "mild, sanft’, poet. (Il.usw.) und spät. Ohne Etymologie. Die Anknüpfung an ἄγαμαι ist semantisch unbefriedigend. Anschluß an γάνος n. “Glanz’ (Bechtel Lex. nach Döderlein) erklärt u.a. das ἀ- nicht. S. auch ἀγάλλομαι. — [Frisk, s.v. ἀγανός, p. 37]
In the wild
- ἀγανὴ · aganē Aeschylus, Agamemnon 97–103
- ἀγανῶς · aganōs Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 305)
- ἀγανώτατον · aganōtaton Theogony 405–408
- ἀγανοῖς · aganois Iliad 2.164
- ἀγανοῖς · aganois Iliad 2.180
- ἀγανοῖς · aganois Iliad 2.189
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἀγανός (scan p. 56; entry #79).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἀγανός (scan p. 37; entry #52).
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