ὁρμαθός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὅρμος (hórmos, “cord, chain”), with a suffix found also in γυργαθός (gurgathós) and κάλαθος (kálathos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hor.ma.tʰós/ → /or.maˈθos/ → /or.maˈθos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hor.ma.tʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)or.maˈtʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /or.maˈθos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /or.maˈθos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /or.maˈθos/

Noun

ὁρμᾰθός • (hormăthós) m (genitive ὁρμᾰθοῦ); second declension

1. string, chain or cluster of things hanging one from the other
2. bead or link of a chain

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὁρμᾰθός; τοῦ ὁρμᾰθοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὁρμᾰθός ho hormăthós	τὼ ὁρμᾰθώ tṑ hormăthṓ	οἱ ὁρμᾰθοί hoi hormăthoí
Genitive	τοῦ ὁρμᾰθοῦ toû hormăthoû	τοῖν ὁρμᾰθοῖν toîn hormăthoîn	τῶν ὁρμᾰθῶν tôn hormăthôn
Dative	τῷ ὁρμᾰθῷ tôi hormăthôi	τοῖν ὁρμᾰθοῖν toîn hormăthoîn	τοῖς ὁρμᾰθοῖς toîs hormăthoîs
Accusative	τὸν ὁρμᾰθόν tòn hormăthón	τὼ ὁρμᾰθώ tṑ hormăthṓ	τοὺς ὁρμᾰθούς toùs hormăthoús
Vocative	ὁρμᾰθέ hormăthé	ὁρμᾰθώ hormăthṓ	ὁρμᾰθοί hormăthoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὁρμᾰθῐ́ζω (hormăthĭ́zō)
• ὁρμᾰ́θῐον (hormắthĭon)

Further reading

• “ὁρμαθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὁρμαθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὁρμαθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette