ἀμόργη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Phoenician with its definitive article equivalent to Arabic مَرَقَة (maraqa), see it for more.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.mór.ɡɛː/ → /aˈmor.ʝi/ → /aˈmor.ʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.mór.ɡɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ʝi/

Noun

ᾰ̓μόργη • (ămórgē) f (genitive ᾰ̓μόργης); first declension

1. watery part which runs out when olives are pressed, amurca
2. kind of dye

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓μόργη; τῆς ᾰ̓μόργης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓μόργη hē ămórgē	τὼ ᾰ̓μόργᾱ tṑ ămórgā	αἱ ᾰ̓μόργαι hai ămórgai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓μόργης tês ămórgēs	τοῖν ᾰ̓μόργαιν toîn ămórgain	τῶν ᾰ̓μοργῶν tôn ămorgôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓μόργῃ têi ămórgēi	τοῖν ᾰ̓μόργαιν toîn ămórgain	ταῖς ᾰ̓μόργαις taîs ămórgais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓μόργην tḕn ămórgēn	τὼ ᾰ̓μόργᾱ tṑ ămórgā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓μόργᾱς tā̀s ămórgās
Vocative	ᾰ̓μόργη ămórgē	ᾰ̓μόργᾱ ămórgā	ᾰ̓μόργαι ămórgai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀμοργεύς (amorgeús)

Descendants

• Greek: μούργα (moúrga)
• → Latin: amurca (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ἀμόργη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀμόργη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀμόργη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)