ἄγκιστρον

From ἄγκος (ánkos, “bend”) +‎ -τρον (-tron).

ᾰ̓́γκῐστρον • (ánkistron) n (genitive ᾰ̓γκῐ́στρου); second declension

1. fishhook
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.369
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.70
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 616C
   • 200 CE – 400 CE, Philumenus, On Poisonous Animals and Their Remedies 2.6
   • 400 CE – 500 CE, Caelius Aurelianus, Chronic Diseases 5.1
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 60.35

• Greek: άγκιστρο (ágkistro)

• “ἄγκιστρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄγκιστρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄγκιστρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄγκιστρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄγκιστρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄγκιστρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G44 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • barb idem, page 62.
  • fish-hook idem, page 323.
  • hook idem, page 405.