ὄρμενος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὅρμενος (hórmenos)

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, spring”), the same root of ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “to awaken, arouse”) and ἔρνος (érnos, “shoot, sprout”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ór.me.nos/ → /ˈor.me.nos/ → /ˈor.me.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ór.me.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈor.me.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.me.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.me.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.me.nos/

Noun

ὄρμενος • (órmenos) m (genitive ὀρμένου); second declension; plural also neuter ὄρμενᾰ

1. (botany) shoot, sprout or stem, stalk (especially of cabbage and asparagus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὄρμενος; τοῦ ὀρμένου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄρμενος ho órmenos	τὼ ὀρμένω tṑ orménō	οἱ ὄρμενοι hoi órmenoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὀρμένου toû orménou	τοῖν ὀρμένοιν toîn orménoin	τῶν ὀρμένων tôn orménōn
Dative	τῷ ὀρμένῳ tôi orménōi	τοῖν ὀρμένοιν toîn orménoin	τοῖς ὀρμένοις toîs orménois
Accusative	τὸν ὄρμενον tòn órmenon	τὼ ὀρμένω tṑ orménō	τοὺς ὀρμένους toùs orménous
Vocative	ὄρμενε órmene	ὀρμένω orménō	ὄρμενοι órmenoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐξορμενίζω (exormenízō)
• ὀρμενόεις (ormenóeis)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: ormenos

Further reading

• “ὄρμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄρμενος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄρμενος 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