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agave
Agave
Greek
Classical Greek/a.ɡa.u̯ɛ̌ː/Modern English/əˈɡɑːvi/
“Strangely, agave began as a woman's Greek name.”
The remote source of agave is Greek Ἀγαυή, romanized Agauē. In Greek, the name meant "illustrious" or "noble," built from the adjective agauos. It is the name of Agaue in myth, the mother of Pentheus in the Theban cycle. That makes the word's first life personal, not botanical.
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