μόργος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The connection with Ἀμοργός (Amorgós) and ὀμόργνυμι (omórgnumi) is semantically uncompelling. According to Beekes, probably of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mór.ɡos/ → /ˈmor.ɣos/ → /ˈmor.ɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mór.ɡos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ɣos/

Noun

μόργος • (mórgos) m (genitive μόργου); second declension

1. wicker basket of a cart, used for carrying straw and chaff
2. leathern vessel

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μόργος; τοῦ μόργου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μόργος ho mórgos	τὼ μόργω tṑ mórgō	οἱ μόργοι hoi mórgoi
Genitive	τοῦ μόργου toû mórgou	τοῖν μόργοιν toîn mórgoin	τῶν μόργων tôn mórgōn
Dative	τῷ μόργῳ tôi mórgōi	τοῖν μόργοιν toîn mórgoin	τοῖς μόργοις toîs mórgois
Accusative	τὸν μόργον tòn mórgon	τὼ μόργω tṑ mórgō	τοὺς μόργους toùs mórgous
Vocative	μόργε mórge	μόργω mórgō	μόργοι mórgoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μοργεύω (morgeúō)

Further reading

• “μόργος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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