ἀμοργίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from the name of the island Amorgos or from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.mor.ɡís/ → /a.morˈʝis/ → /a.morˈʝis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.mor.ɡís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.morˈɡis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.morˈʝis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.morˈʝis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.morˈʝis/

Noun

ἀμοργίς • (amorgís) f (genitive ἀμοργίδος); third declension

1. stalks of mallow, used like hemp or flax
2. kind of garment

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἀμοργῐ́ς; τῆς ἀμοργῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀμοργῐ́ς hē amorgís	τὼ ἀμοργῐ́δε tṑ amorgíde	αἱ ἀμοργῐ́δες hai amorgídes
Genitive	τῆς ἀμοργῐ́δος tês amorgídos	τοῖν ἀμοργῐ́δοιν toîn amorgídoin	τῶν ἀμοργῐ́δων tôn amorgídōn
Dative	τῇ ἀμοργῐ́δῐ têi amorgídi	τοῖν ἀμοργῐ́δοιν toîn amorgídoin	ταῖς ἀμοργῐ́σῐ / ἀμοργῐ́σῐν taîs amorgísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀμοργῐ́δᾰ tḕn amorgída	τὼ ἀμοργῐ́δε tṑ amorgíde	τᾱ̀ς ἀμοργῐ́δᾰς tā̀s amorgídas
Vocative	ἀμοργῐ́ς amorgís	ἀμοργῐ́δε amorgíde	ἀμοργῐ́δες amorgídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ἀμοργίδιον (amorgídion)
• ἀμόργινος (amórginos)

 

Further reading

• “ἀμοργίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀμοργίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀμοργίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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