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

 

Noun

ὅρμησῐς • (hórmēsĭsf (genitive ὁρμήσεως); third declension

  1. rapid motion
  2. eagerness
    • 120 CE – 175 CE, Vettius Valens, Anthology 60.18:
      ἐπὶ στρατείαν
      epì strateían
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

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