μόργος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The connection with Ἀμοργός (Amorgós) and ὀμόργνυμι (omórgnumi) is semantically uncompelling. According to Beekes, probably of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mór.ɡos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmor.ɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmor.ɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmor.ɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmor.ɣos/
Noun
μόργος • (mórgos) m (genitive μόργου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μόργος ho mórgos |
τὼ μόργω tṑ mórgō |
οἱ μόργοι hoi mórgoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μόργου toû mórgou |
τοῖν μόργοιν toîn mórgoin |
τῶν μόργων tôn mórgōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μόργῳ tōî mórgōi |
τοῖν μόργοιν toîn mórgoin |
τοῖς μόργοις toîs mórgois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μόργον tòn mórgon |
τὼ μόργω tṑ mórgō |
τοὺς μόργους toùs mórgous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μόργε mórge |
μόργω mórgō |
μόργοι mórgoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μοργεύω (morgeúō)
Further reading
- “μόργος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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