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 • (mormúros) 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 mormúros	τὼ μορμῠ́ρω tṑ mormúrō	οἱ μορμῠ́ροι hoi mormúroi
Genitive	τοῦ μορμῠ́ρου toû mormúrou	τοῖν μορμῠ́ροιν toîn mormúroin	τῶν μορμῠ́ρων tôn mormúrōn
Dative	τῷ μορμῠ́ρῳ tôi mormúrōi	τοῖν μορμῠ́ροιν toîn mormúroin	τοῖς μορμῠ́ροις toîs mormúrois
Accusative	τὸν μορμῠ́ρον tòn mormúron	τὼ μορμῠ́ρω tṑ mormúrō	τοὺς μορμῠ́ρους toùs mormúrous
Vocative	μορμῠ́ρε mormúre	μορμῠ́ρω mormúrō	μορμῠ́ροι mormúroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: mormyr
  • → Italian: mormora

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