ὄργυια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a zero-grade form related to ὀρέγω (orégō, “I stretch”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ór.ɡyː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈor.ɡy.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈor.ʝy.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈor.ʝy.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈor.ʝi.a/
Noun
ὄργυιᾰ • (órguia) f (genitive ὀργυίᾱς); first declension
- fathom
- Και βολισαντες ευρον οργυιας εικοσι, βραχυ δε διαστησαντες, και παλιν βολισαντες, ευρον οργυιας δεκαπεντε.
- They sounded and found twenty fathoms, went a bit farther, sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. Acts 27:28
- Και βολισαντες ευρον οργυιας εικοσι, βραχυ δε διαστησαντες, και παλιν βολισαντες, ευρον οργυιας δεκαπεντε.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὄργυιᾰ hē órguia |
τὼ ὀργυίᾱ tṑ orguíā |
αἱ ὄργυιαι hai órguiai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὀργυίᾱς tês orguíās |
τοῖν ὀργυίαιν toîn orguíain |
τῶν ὀργυιῶν tôn orguiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὀργυίᾳ têi orguíāi |
τοῖν ὀργυίαιν toîn orguíain |
ταῖς ὀργυίαις taîs orguíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὄργυιᾰν tḕn órguian |
τὼ ὀργυίᾱ tṑ orguíā |
τᾱ̀ς ὀργυίᾱς tā̀s orguíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄργυιᾰ órguia |
ὀργυίᾱ orguíā |
ὄργυιαι órguiai | ||||||||||
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References
- “ὄργυια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄργυια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄργυια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄργυια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὄργυια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.