τόργος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Without a convincing etymology. A connection with Proto-Germanic *sturkaz (“stork”) seems gratuitous. Thompson compares Coptic ⲧⲣⲉ (tre, “kite”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tór.ɡos/ → /ˈtor.ɣos/ → /ˈtor.ɣos/

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

Noun

τόργος • (tórgos) m (genitive τόργου); second declension

1. vulture

   Synonyms: αἰγυπιός (aigupiós), γύψ (gúps), λώβηξ (lṓbēx)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τόργος; τοῦ τόργου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τόργος ho tórgos	τὼ τόργω tṑ tórgō	οἱ τόργοι hoi tórgoi
Genitive	τοῦ τόργου toû tórgou	τοῖν τόργοιν toîn tórgoin	τῶν τόργων tôn tórgōn
Dative	τῷ τόργῳ tôi tórgōi	τοῖν τόργοιν toîn tórgoin	τοῖς τόργοις toîs tórgois
Accusative	τὸν τόργον tòn tórgon	τὼ τόργω tṑ tórgō	τοὺς τόργους toùs tórgous
Vocative	τόργε tórge	τόργω tórgō	τόργοι tórgoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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