harpago

From Ancient Greek ἁρπάγη (harpágē, “hook”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”), of uncertain origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhar.pa.ɡoː/

harpagō m (genitive harpagōnis); third declension

1. grappling hook, grappling iron

Third declension.

• harpaga

• harpago in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• harpago in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• harpago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• harpago in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• harpago in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin