ἀμόργη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Phoenician with its definitive article equivalent to Arabic مَرَقَة (maraqa), see it for more.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.mór.ɡɛː/ → /aˈmor.ʝi/ → /aˈmor.ʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.mór.ɡɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ʝi/

Noun

ᾰ̓μόργη • (amórgē) f (genitive ᾰ̓μόργης); first declension

1. watery part which runs out when olives are pressed, amurca
2. kind of dye

Declension

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓μόργη; τῆς ᾰ̓μόργης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓μόργη hē amórgē	τὼ ᾰ̓μόργᾱ tṑ amórgā	αἱ ᾰ̓μόργαι hai amórgai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓μόργης tês amórgēs	τοῖν ᾰ̓μόργαιν toîn amórgain	τῶν ᾰ̓μοργῶν tôn amorgôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓μόργῃ têi amórgēi	τοῖν ᾰ̓μόργαιν toîn amórgain	ταῖς ᾰ̓μόργαις taîs amórgais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓μόργην tḕn amórgēn	τὼ ᾰ̓μόργᾱ tṑ amórgā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓μόργᾱς tā̀s amórgās
Vocative	ᾰ̓μόργη amórgē	ᾰ̓μόργᾱ amórgā	ᾰ̓μόργαι amórgai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀμοργεύς (amorgeús)

Descendants

• Greek: μούργα (moúrga)
• → Latin: amurca (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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