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Argive

//ˈɑɹɡaɪv// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, from or pertaining to Argos. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Greek. broadly, not-comparable

    "[…] And many an old philosophy ⁠On Argive heights divinely sang, ⁠And round us all the thicket rang To many a flute of Arcady."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to the ancient Greek city of Argos or its people wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An inhabitant of Argos.

    "The Greeks generally think that this fate came upon him because he induced the Pythoness to pronounce against Demaratus; the Athenians differ from all others in saying that it was because he cut down the sacred grove of the goddesses when he made his invasion by Eleusis; while the Argives ascribe it to his having taken from their refuge and cut to pieces certain argives who had fled from battle into a precinct sacred to Argus, where Cleomenes slew them, burning likewise at the same time, through irreverence, the grove itself."

  2. 2
    a native or inhabitant of the city of Argos wordnet
  3. 3
    In the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and in later classical epics, an alternate name for an Achaean, or Greek in general. poetic

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin Argīvus, from Ancient Greek Ἀργεῖος (Argeîos).

Etymology 2

From Latin Argīvus, from Ancient Greek Ἀργεῖος (Argeîos).

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