μόρρια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably of Iranian origin; compare Persian مورش (mureš, “small shells or glass beads”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mór̥.r̥i.a/ → /ˈmor.ri.a/ → /ˈmo.ri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mór̥.r̥i.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ri.a/

Noun

μόρρῐᾰ • (mórrhia) n pl (genitive μορρῐ́ων); second declension

1. name of an Oriental material, perhaps agate
2. cups and vases made with this material
3. glass imitation

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ μόρρῐᾰ; τῶν μορρῐ́ων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ μόρρῐᾰ tà mórrhia
Genitive	τῶν μορρῐ́ων tôn morrhíōn
Dative	τοῖς μορρῐ́οις toîs morrhíois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ μόρρῐᾰ tà mórrhia
Vocative	μόρρῐᾰ mórrhia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μόρρῐνος (mórrhinos)

Descendants

• → Latin: murra

References

• “μόρρια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μόρρια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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