# ἀγοραῖος
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ἀγορά (agorá, “market”) +‎ -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ɡo.râi̯.os/ → /a.ɣoˈrɛ.os/ → /a.ɣoˈre.os/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /a.ɡo.râi̯.os/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /a.ɡoˈrɛ.os/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /a.ɣoˈrɛ.os/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /a.ɣoˈre.os/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /a.ɣoˈre.os/

### Adjective

ᾰ̓γοραῖος • (agoraîos) m (feminine ᾰ̓γοραίᾱ, neuter ᾰ̓γοραῖον); first/second declension
* 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, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 1.15.1
** 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 5.15.4
** 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 3.11.9
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 90
** (of things)
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 425C
* frequenting the market
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.23
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1291B.19
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1291A.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 347C
** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Characters 6.2
** New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 17:5
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 38
** 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Euerg. 1
** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Art of Rhetoric 10.11
** (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 1162B.26
*** 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.109D
* 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, Gaius Gracchus 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

#### Descendants

* Greek: αγοραίος (agoraíos)

### Further reading

* “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 (2006–2024)
* G60 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* 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.