ὑγρός

From Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“to moist”). Cognate with Latin ūmeō.

ὑγρός • (hugrós) m (feminine ὑγρᾱ́, neuter ὑγρόν); first/second declension

1. wet, moist

   Antonym: ξηρός (xērós)

• → English: hygro-
• → French: hygro-
• Greek: υγρός (ygrós)
• → Italian: igro-
• → Portuguese: higro-

• ὑγρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑγρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὑγρός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὑγρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὑγρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὑγρός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5200 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.
  • clammy idem, page 134.
  • crumbling idem, page 187.
  • damp idem, page 194.
  • elastic idem, page 265.
  • faint idem, page 302.
  • feeble idem, page 313.
  • flexible idem, page 327.
  • fluid idem, page 330.
  • friable idem, page 345.
  • languid idem, page 475.
  • limp idem, page 492.
  • liquid idem, page 494.
  • lithe idem, page 495.
  • moist idem, page 538.
  • nerveless idem, page 556.
  • pliable idem, page 621.
  • pliant idem, page 621.
  • resilient idem, page 702.
  • soft idem, page 791.
  • supple idem, page 840.
  • unresisting idem, page 929.
  • watery idem, page 967.
  • weak idem, page 969.
  • wet idem, page 974.
  • yielding idem, page 996.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1118