αὐγή

See also: αυγή, and Αὔγη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to increase”). Cognates might include Albanian ag (“dawn”) and agój (“to dawn”) and Old Church Slavonic югъ (jugŭ, “South, south wind”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /aβˈʝi/ → /avˈʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.ɡɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /awˈɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aβˈʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /avˈʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /avˈʝi/

Noun

αὐγή • (augḗ) f (genitive αὐγῆς); first declension

1. light of the sun, sunlight
2. (in the plural) rays, beams
3. dawn
4. any bright light, as of fire
5. any gleam on the surface of bright objects, sheen

Inflection

First declension of ἡ αὐγή; τῆς αὐγῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὐγή hē augḗ	τὼ αὐγᾱ́ tṑ augā́	αἱ αὐγαί hai augaí
Genitive	τῆς αὐγῆς tês augês	τοῖν αὐγαῖν toîn augaîn	τῶν αὐγῶν tôn augôn
Dative	τῇ αὐγῇ têi augêi	τοῖν αὐγαῖν toîn augaîn	ταῖς αὐγαῖς taîs augaîs
Accusative	τὴν αὐγήν tḕn augḗn	τὼ αὐγᾱ́ tṑ augā́	τᾱ̀ς αὐγᾱ́ς tā̀s augā́s
Vocative	αὐγή augḗ	αὐγᾱ́ augā́	αὐγαί augaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• εὐαυγής (euaugḗs)
• εὐαυγία (euaugía)
• τηλαυγής (tēlaugḗs)

Descendants

• Greek: αυγή (avgí)

Further reading

• “αὐγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αὐγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “αὐγή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• αὐγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐγή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• αὐγή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G827 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beam idem, page 66.
  • blaze idem, page 82.
  • brightness idem, page 98.
  • coruscation idem, page 176.
  • eye idem, page 299.
  • flame idem, page 325.
  • flash idem, page 326.
  • glare idem, page 361.
  • gleam idem, page 361.
  • glimmer idem, page 362.
  • glitter idem, page 362.
  • light idem, page 490.
  • ray idem, page 674.
  • sunbeam idem, page 838.
• “αὐγή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011