τόρμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tórmos (“borehole”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, bore, twist”). Cognate with Hittite [script needed] (tarma-, “nail, peg”), as well as perhaps Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“gut, intestine”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tór.mos/ → /ˈtor.mos/ → /ˈtor.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tór.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.mos/

Noun

τόρμος • (tórmos) m (genitive τορμου); second declension

1. a hole or socket in which a peg is stuck
2. a nave of a wheel
3. a tenon
4. a projecting peg or pivot

Declension

Second declension of ὁ τόρμος; τοῦ τόρμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τόρμος ho tórmos	τὼ τόρμω tṑ tórmō	οἱ τόρμοι hoi tórmoi
Genitive	τοῦ τόρμου toû tórmou	τοῖν τόρμοιν toîn tórmoin	τῶν τόρμων tôn tórmōn
Dative	τῷ τόρμῳ tôi tórmōi	τοῖν τόρμοιν toîn tórmoin	τοῖς τόρμοις toîs tórmois
Accusative	τὸν τόρμον tòn tórmon	τὼ τόρμω tṑ tórmō	τοὺς τόρμους toùs tórmous
Vocative	τόρμε tórme	τόρμω tórmō	τόρμοι tórmoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τόρμη (tórmē)
• τορμίον (tormíon)
• τορμικά (tormiká)

Further reading

• “τόρμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τόρμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “τόρμος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011