Agios (), plural Agioi (), transcribes masculine gender Greek words meaning 'sacred' or 'saint' (for example Agios Dimitrios, Agioi Anargyroi). It is frequently shortened in colloquial language to Ai (for example Ai Stratis). In polytonic script it is written Hagios () (for example Hagios Demetrios). It is also transliterated as, among other things, Haghios, Ayios, Aghios (for example Ayios Dhometios, Aghios Andreas Beach, respectively) in the singular form, and Haghioi, Ayioi, Aghioi, Ayii in the plural (for example Ayioi Omoloyites, Nicosia, Aghioi Theodoroi, Ayii Trimithias respectively).
The feminine is agia, ayia, aghia, hagia or haghia (Greek: or in polytonic form ), for example Agia Varvara (Saint Barbara).
See also
Agia (disambiguation), the feminine form of the word in Greek Agis (disambiguation) Agii (disambiguation) Agius, a surname Agos, an Armenian newspaper Agoi, a clan and language spoken by that clan in Nigeria AGIO, the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation