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Etymology · Ancient Greek

ἀγών

3 English words descend from Ancient Greek ἀγών, most common first.

agonA struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
agonismCompetitive struggle (especially political).
protagonA supposed crystalline molecule that forms the brain. The idea was proposed by Matthias Eugen Oscar Liebreich and Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum later disproved it, showing that the brain contains various lipids.