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 amorgĭ́s	τὼ ἀμοργῐ́δε tṑ amorgĭ́de	αἱ ἀμοργῐ́δες hai amorgĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ἀμοργῐ́δος tês amorgĭ́dos	τοῖν ἀμοργῐ́δοιν toîn amorgĭ́doin	τῶν ἀμοργῐ́δων tôn amorgĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ἀμοργῐ́δῐ têi amorgĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ἀμοργῐ́δοιν toîn amorgĭ́doin	ταῖς ἀμοργῐ́σῐ / ἀμοργῐ́σῐν taîs amorgĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἀμοργῐ́δᾰ tḕn amorgĭ́dă	τὼ ἀμοργῐ́δε tṑ amorgĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ἀμοργῐ́δᾰς tā̀s amorgĭ́dăs
Vocative	ἀμοργῐ́ς amorgĭ́s	ἀμοργῐ́δε amorgĭ́de	ἀμοργῐ́δες amorgĭ́des
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 (2006–2025)
• 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