γόργυρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- γέργυρα (gérgura), γοργύρη (gorgúrē)
Etymology
According to Beekes, it's definitely from Pre-Greek, but confer Sanskrit गर्गर (gárgara, “whirlpool, eddy, churn; water-jar”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡór.ɡyː.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡor.ɡy.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣor.ɣy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣor.ʝy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣor.ʝi.ra/
Noun
γόργῡρα • (górgūra) f (genitive γοργῡ́ρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ γόργῡρᾰ hē górgūra |
τὼ γοργῡ́ρᾱ tṑ gorgū́rā |
αἱ γόργῡραι hai górgūrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς γοργῡ́ρᾱς tês gorgū́rās |
τοῖν γοργῡ́ραιν toîn gorgū́rain |
τῶν γοργῡρῶν tôn gorgūrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ γοργῡ́ρᾳ têi gorgū́rāi |
τοῖν γοργῡ́ραιν toîn gorgū́rain |
ταῖς γοργῡ́ραις taîs gorgū́rais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν γόργῡρᾰν tḕn górgūran |
τὼ γοργῡ́ρᾱ tṑ gorgū́rā |
τᾱ̀ς γοργῡ́ρᾱς tā̀s gorgū́rās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | γόργῡρᾰ górgūra |
γοργῡ́ρᾱ gorgū́rā |
γόργῡραι górgūrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- γοργύριον (gorgúrion)
Further reading
- γόργυρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γόργυρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γόργυρα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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
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