ὅρμησις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ὁρμᾰ́ω (hormắō, “set in motion, urge on, inspire, rush, hasten”, future stem: ὁρμησ-, hormēs-) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming nouns of action)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hór.mɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)or.me̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.mi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.mi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.mi.sis/
Noun
ὅρμησῐς • (hórmēsĭs) f (genitive ὁρμήσεως); third declension
- rapid motion
- eagerness
- 120 CE – 175 CE, Vettius Valens, Anthology 60.18:
- ἐπὶ στρατείαν
- epì strateían
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- ἐπὶ στρατείαν
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ὅρμησῐς hē hórmēsĭs |
τὼ ὁρμήσει tṑ hormḗsei |
αἱ ὁρμήσεις hai hormḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ὁρμήσεως tês hormḗseōs |
τοῖν ὁρμησέοιν toîn hormēséoin |
τῶν ὁρμήσεων tôn hormḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ὁρμήσει tēî hormḗsei |
τοῖν ὁρμησέοιν toîn hormēséoin |
ταῖς ὁρμήσεσῐ / ὁρμήσεσῐν taîs hormḗsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ὅρμησῐν tḕn hórmēsĭn |
τὼ ὁρμήσει tṑ hormḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς ὁρμήσεις tā̀s hormḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὅρμησῐ hórmēsĭ |
ὁρμήσει hormḗsei |
ὁρμήσεις hormḗseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Catalan: hormesi
- → Czech: hormeze
- → Danish: hormese, hormesis
- → Dutch: hormese, hormesis
- → English: hormesis
- → Finnish: hormeesi
- → French: hormèse, hormésis
- → German: Hormesis
- → Italian: ormesi
- → Polish: hormeza
- → Portuguese: hormese
- → Russian: гормезис (gormezis), гермезис (germezis)
- → Spanish: hormesis
- → Swedish: hormesis
- → Ukrainian: гормезис (hormezys)
Further reading
- “ὅρμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “ὅρμησις”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn