mormorion

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

mormō̆riō̆n f (genitive mormō̆riō̆nis); third declension (hapax)

1. a kind of dark brown rock crystal
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.173:

     Mormorion ab India nigerrimo colore tralucet vocatur et promnion, cum in ea miscetur et carbunculi color, Alexandrion, ubi vero sardae Cyprium.

     Mormorion from India in the blackest colour is also called promnion, and when carbuncle colour is mixed into it it is Alexandrian, but when it is of sard colour it is Cypriot.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mormō̆riō̆n	mormō̆riōnēs
Genitive	mormō̆riōnis	mormō̆riōnum
Dative	mormō̆riōnī	mormō̆riōnibus
Accusative	mormō̆riōnem	mormō̆riōnēs
Ablative	mormō̆riōne	mormō̆riōnibus
Vocative	mormō̆riō̆n	mormō̆riōnēs

Derived terms

• morion as a misreading

References

• “mormorion”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mormorion in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.