μόρφνος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μορφνός (morphnós)

Etymology

Like the rhyming word ὀρφνός (orphnós, “dark”), this word is usually explained from a meaning "dark-colored". Similar words are μοριφόν (moriphón, “dark, black”), μορύσσω (morússō, “to soil, defile”), as well as μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). Connection with μορφή (morphḗ, “form”) cannot be proven. The word has also been connected to Sanskrit मृग (mṛga, “deer, antelope”), with an influence from νηττοφόνος (nēttophónos, “kind of eagle”); doubtful in view of the haplology that has to be assumed.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mór.pʰnos/ → /ˈmor.ɸnos/ → /ˈmor.fnos/

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

Noun

μόρφνος • (mórphnos) m (genitive μόρφνου); second declension

1. kind of eagle

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μόρφνος; τοῦ μόρφνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μόρφνος ho mórphnos	τὼ μόρφνω tṑ mórphnō	οἱ μόρφνοι hoi mórphnoi
Genitive	τοῦ μόρφνου toû mórphnou	τοῖν μόρφνοιν toîn mórphnoin	τῶν μόρφνων tôn mórphnōn
Dative	τῷ μόρφνῳ tôi mórphnōi	τοῖν μόρφνοιν toîn mórphnoin	τοῖς μόρφνοις toîs mórphnois
Accusative	τὸν μόρφνον tòn mórphnon	τὼ μόρφνω tṑ mórphnō	τοὺς μόρφνους toùs mórphnous
Vocative	μόρφνε mórphne	μόρφνω mórphnō	μόρφνοι mórphnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: morphnos
• → Translingual: Morphnus

Further reading

• “μόρφνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μόρφνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μόρφνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μόρφνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μόρφνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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