πηγή

• πᾱγᾱ́ (pāgā́) – Doric

Pre-Greek. Perhaps related to πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi).

πηγή • (pēgḗ) f (genitive πηγῆς); first declension

1. spring, well, fountain
2. (in the plural) source of a river
3. vein (of a mineral)
4. source, origin, cause

Often in plural.

• νόα (nóa) (Laconian)

• πηγαῖος (pēgaîos, “of or from a well”)

• Greek: πηγή (pigí)

• πηγή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πηγή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πηγή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πηγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• πηγή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4077 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beginning idem, page 71.
  • brook idem, page 101.
  • cause idem, page 118.
  • commencement idem, page 147.
  • element idem, page 265.
  • flood idem, page 329.
  • fountain idem, page 341.
  • origin idem, page 579.
  • root idem, page 721.
  • seed idem, page 749.
  • shower idem, page 770.
  • source idem, page 797.
  • spring idem, page 805.
  • starting point idem, page 812.
  • stream idem, page 824.
  • tear idem, page 859.
  • vein idem, page 946.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Inherited from Ancient Greek πηγή (pēgḗ).

πηγή • (pigí) f (plural πηγές)

1. source, origin (person, place, thing)

   πλουτοπαραγωγικές πηγές ― ploutoparagogikés pigés ― sources of wealth

2. water source, spring

   Tο ποτάμι έχει τις πηγές του στο βουνό. ― To potámi échei tis pigés tou sto vounó. ― The river has its source in the mountains.

• (water source): ανάβρα f (anávra)
• (water source): βρυσομάνα f (vrysomána)
• (water source): κεφαλάρι n (kefalári)
• (water source): κεφαλόβρυσο n (kefalóvryso)
• (water source): νερομάνα f (neromána)

• πηγάδι n (pigádi, “well”)
• πηγαίος (pigaíos, “of or from a well”, adj)

• πυγή f (pygí, “buttocks”)