μόριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from μόρος (móros, “fate, destiny”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion, diminutive).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.ri.on/ → /ˈmo.ri.on/ → /ˈmo.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ri.on/

Noun

μόρῐον • (mórion) n (genitive μορῐ́ου); second declension

1. piece, portion
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.16
     • 7.23
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 525e
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.85
     • 2.39, 7.58, 8.46
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 541
   • Palatine Anthology 7.404.7
2. constituent part, member
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 696b
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 463d
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 4.1023b.18
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 4.1288b.11
   1. member or part of the body
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.2
   2. (chiefly in the plural) genitals
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Sale of Creeds 6
      • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 1.85
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.323b
      • 2.797f
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 12.431
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 28.2
   3. member of a council
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.1282a.37
3. (grammar)
   1. part of speech
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 6
        • 17
      • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 36.21
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.731e
   2. particle
   3. prefix or suffix
      • 1 CE – 100 CE, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, De Natura Deorum 13
      • 1 CE – 100 CE, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, EM 141.47
        • 809.9
4. (arithmetic)
   1. fraction with 1 for numerator
      • Dioph. 1p.6T
   2. fraction
      • Dioph. 5.20
   3. denominator of a fraction
      • Dioph. 1.23
        • 1.25, 3.19
      • 10 CE – 70 CE, Hero, Stereometrica 2.16

Declension

Second declension of τὸ μόρῐον; τοῦ μορῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μόρῐον tò mórion	τὼ μορῐ́ω tṑ moríō	τᾰ̀ μόρῐᾰ tà mória
Genitive	τοῦ μορῐ́ου toû moríou	τοῖν μορῐ́οιν toîn moríoin	τῶν μορῐ́ων tôn moríōn
Dative	τῷ μορῐ́ῳ tôi moríōi	τοῖν μορῐ́οιν toîn moríoin	τοῖς μορῐ́οις toîs moríois
Accusative	τὸ μόρῐον tò mórion	τὼ μορῐ́ω tṑ moríō	τᾰ̀ μόρῐᾰ tà mória
Vocative	μόρῐον mórion	μορῐ́ω moríō	μόρῐᾰ mória
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “constituent part, member”): μέρος (méros)
• (antonym(s) of “prefix or suffix”): μέρος (méros)

References

• “μόριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μόριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μόριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bit idem, page 80.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • division idem, page 244.
  • fraction idem, page 342.
  • fragment idem, page 342.
  • ingredient idem, page 440.
  • morsel idem, page 541.
  • part idem, page 593.
  • piece idem, page 611.
  • portion idem, page 627.
  • section idem, page 747.
  • share idem, page 762.