argive

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1. of or relating to Argos.
2. Greek.

noun

3. a native of Argos.
4. a Greek.

adjective

1. (in Homer, Virgil, etc) of or relating to the Greeks besieging Troy, esp those from Argos
2. of or relating to Argos or Argolis
3. a literary word for Greek

noun

4. an ancient Greek, esp one from Argos or Argolis

adj.

“of Argos,” hence, especially in Homeric usage, “the Greeks,” as a byword for Achaean (he describes Agamemnon as king of Argos), 1520s, from Latin Argivus, from Greek Argeios “of Argos.”

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