μορμύρος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μόρμυλος (mórmulos)

Etymology

According to Strömberg, from μορμύρω (mormúrō, “to roar and boil”), if the fish meant here would properly be the "bubble-blower". The connection with μύρω (múrō, “to flow, trickle”) is not convincing. Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mor.mý.ros/ → /morˈmy.ros/ → /morˈmi.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mor.mý.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /morˈmy.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /morˈmy.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /morˈmy.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /morˈmi.ros/

Noun

μορμῠ́ρος • (mormŭ́ros) m (genitive μορμῠ́ρου); second declension

1. steenbras (Lithognathus mormyrus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μορμῠ́ρος; τοῦ μορμῠ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μορμῠ́ρος ho mormŭ́ros	τὼ μορμῠ́ρω tṑ mormŭ́rō	οἱ μορμῠ́ροι hoi mormŭ́roi
Genitive	τοῦ μορμῠ́ρου toû mormŭ́rou	τοῖν μορμῠ́ροιν toîn mormŭ́roin	τῶν μορμῠ́ρων tôn mormŭ́rōn
Dative	τῷ μορμῠ́ρῳ tôi mormŭ́rōi	τοῖν μορμῠ́ροιν toîn mormŭ́roin	τοῖς μορμῠ́ροις toîs mormŭ́rois
Accusative	τὸν μορμῠ́ρον tòn mormŭ́ron	τὼ μορμῠ́ρω tṑ mormŭ́rō	τοὺς μορμῠ́ρους toùs mormŭ́rous
Vocative	μορμῠ́ρε mormŭ́re	μορμῠ́ρω mormŭ́rō	μορμῠ́ροι mormŭ́roi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: mormyr
  • → Italian: mormora
• → Translingual: Mormyrus

Further reading

• “μορμύρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μορμύρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN