εἱργμός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• εἰργμός (eirgmós)

Etymology

From εἴργω (eírgō, “to fence in, shut out”) +‎ -μός (-mós), with aspiration.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /heːrŋ.mós/ → /irɣˈmos/ → /irɣˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /heːrŋ.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)irɡˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /irɣˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /irɣˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /irɣˈmos/

Noun

εἱργμός • (heirgmós) m (genitive εἱργμοῦ); second declension

1. cage, prison

   Synonyms: δεσμωτήρῐον (desmōtḗrion), εἱρκτή (heirktḗ)

2. imprisonment

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ εἱργμός; τοῦ εἱργμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ εἱργμός ho heirgmós	τὼ εἱργμώ tṑ heirgmṓ	οἱ εἱργμοί hoi heirgmoí
Genitive	τοῦ εἱργμοῦ toû heirgmoû	τοῖν εἱργμοῖν toîn heirgmoîn	τῶν εἱργμῶν tôn heirgmôn
Dative	τῷ εἱργμῷ tôi heirgmôi	τοῖν εἱργμοῖν toîn heirgmoîn	τοῖς εἱργμοῖς toîs heirgmoîs
Accusative	τὸν εἱργμόν tòn heirgmón	τὼ εἱργμώ tṑ heirgmṓ	τοὺς εἱργμούς toùs heirgmoús
Vocative	εἱργμέ heirgmé	εἱργμώ heirgmṓ	εἱργμοί heirgmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• εἱργμοφῠ́λᾰξ (heirgmophúlax)

Further reading

• “εἱργμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “εἱργμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• εἱργμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• εἱργμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)