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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hór.miː.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)or.mi.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.mi.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.mi.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.mi.non/
Noun
ὅρμῑνον • (hórmīnon) n (genitive ὁρμῑ́νου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ὅρμῑνον tò hórmīnon |
τὼ ὁρμῑ́νω tṑ hormī́nō |
τᾰ̀ ὅρμῑνᾰ tằ hórmīnă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ὁρμῑ́νου toû hormī́nou |
τοῖν ὁρμῑ́νοιν toîn hormī́noin |
τῶν ὁρμῑ́νων tôn hormī́nōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ὁρμῑ́νῳ tōî hormī́nōi |
τοῖν ὁρμῑ́νοιν toîn hormī́noin |
τοῖς ὁρμῑ́νοις toîs hormī́nois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ὅρμῑνον tò hórmīnon |
τὼ ὁρμῑ́νω tṑ hormī́nō |
τᾰ̀ ὅρμῑνᾰ tằ hórmīnă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὅρμῑνον hórmīnon |
ὁρμῑ́νω hormī́nō |
ὅρμῑνᾰ hórmīnă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
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