ὅρμινον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὅρμινος (hórminos)

Etymology

The formation is like σέλινον (sélinon) and κύμινον (kúminon). It has originally been connected with ὅρμος (hórmos) and ὁρμή (hormḗ), but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hór.miː.non/ → /ˈor.mi.non/ → /ˈor.mi.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hór.miː.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)or.mi.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.mi.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.mi.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.mi.non/

Noun

ὅρμῑνον • (hórmīnon) n (genitive ὁρμῑ́νου); second declension

1. orval (Salvia viridis)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὅρμῑνον; τοῦ ὁρμῑ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὅρμῑνον tò hórmīnon	τὼ ὁρμῑ́νω tṑ hormī́nō	τᾰ̀ ὅρμῑνᾰ tà hórmīna
Genitive	τοῦ ὁρμῑ́νου toû hormī́nou	τοῖν ὁρμῑ́νοιν toîn hormī́noin	τῶν ὁρμῑ́νων tôn hormī́nōn
Dative	τῷ ὁρμῑ́νῳ tôi hormī́nōi	τοῖν ὁρμῑ́νοιν toîn hormī́noin	τοῖς ὁρμῑ́νοις toîs hormī́nois
Accusative	τὸ ὅρμῑνον tò hórmīnon	τὼ ὁρμῑ́νω tṑ hormī́nō	τᾰ̀ ὅρμῑνᾰ tà hórmīna
Vocative	ὅρμῑνον hórmīnon	ὁρμῑ́νω hormī́nō	ὅρμῑνᾰ hórmīna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: horminum
  • Catalan: ormí
  • → Translingual: Horminum

Further reading

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