ὁρμαθός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὅρμος (hórmos, “cord, chain”), with a suffix found also in γυργαθός (gurgathós) and κάλαθος (kálathos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hor.ma.tʰós/ → /or.maˈθos/ → /or.maˈθos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hor.ma.tʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)or.maˈtʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /or.maˈθos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /or.maˈθos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /or.maˈθos/

Noun

ὁρμᾰθός • (hormathós) m (genitive ὁρμᾰθοῦ); second declension

1. string, chain or cluster of things hanging one from the other
2. bead or link of a chain

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὁρμᾰθός; τοῦ ὁρμᾰθοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὁρμᾰθός ho hormathós	τὼ ὁρμᾰθώ tṑ hormathṓ	οἱ ὁρμᾰθοί hoi hormathoí
Genitive	τοῦ ὁρμᾰθοῦ toû hormathoû	τοῖν ὁρμᾰθοῖν toîn hormathoîn	τῶν ὁρμᾰθῶν tôn hormathôn
Dative	τῷ ὁρμᾰθῷ tôi hormathôi	τοῖν ὁρμᾰθοῖν toîn hormathoîn	τοῖς ὁρμᾰθοῖς toîs hormathoîs
Accusative	τὸν ὁρμᾰθόν tòn hormathón	τὼ ὁρμᾰθώ tṑ hormathṓ	τοὺς ὁρμᾰθούς toùs hormathoús
Vocative	ὁρμᾰθέ hormathé	ὁρμᾰθώ hormathṓ	ὁρμᾰθοί hormathoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὁρμᾰθῐ́ζω (hormathízō)
• ὁρμᾰ́θῐον (hormáthion)

 

Further reading

• “ὁρμαθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὁρμαθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὁρμαθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette