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ὁρμιά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁρμιά

Structure: ὁρμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: o(/rmos

Sense

  1. a fishing-line of horsehair

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁρμιά ὁρμιᾱ́ ὁρμιαί
Genitive ὁρμιᾶς ὁρμιαῖν ὁρμιῶν
Dative ὁρμιᾷ ὁρμιαῖν ὁρμιαῖς
Accusative ὁρμιᾱ́ν ὁρμιᾱ́ ὁρμιᾱ́ς
Vocative ὁρμιᾱ́ ὁρμιᾱ́ ὁρμιαί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ μάλα, ἤνπερ ἡ ἱέρειά μοι ἐθελήσῃ πρὸσ ὀλίγον χρῆσαι τὴν ὁρμιὰν ἐκείνην καὶ τὸ ἄγκιστρον, ὅπερ ὁ ἁλιεὺσ ἀνέθηκεν ὁ ἐκ Πειραιῶσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 47:5)
  • τό γε τὴν ὁρμιὰν δεξόμενον. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 12 5:1)
  • ταύτασ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ τὰ μὲν βράγχια ἔχειν καλυπτά, εἶναι καρχαρόδοντασ καὶ τῶν συναγελαζομένων καὶ σαρκοφάγων χολήν τε ἔχειν ἰσομήκη τῷ ἐντέρῳ καὶ σπλῆνα ὁμοίωσ, λέγεται δὲ ὡσ θηρευθεῖσαι προσανάλλονται καὶ ἀποτρώγουσαι τὴν ὁρμιὰν ἐκφεύγουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 62)
  • διὰ τί τῶν ἀρρένων ἵππων μᾶλλον ἢ τῶν θηλειῶν τὰσ τρίχασ εἰσ τὴν ὁρμιὰν λαμβάνουσι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 171)
  • Ἀριστοτέλησ δέ φησι μηδὲν ἐν τούτοισ λέγεσθαι σοφὸν ἢ περιττὸν ἀλλὰ τῷ ὄντι κεράτιον περιτίθεσθαι πρὸ τοῦ ἀγκίστρου περὶ τὴν ὁρμιάν, ἐπεὶ πρὸσ ἄλλο ἐρχόμενοι διεσθίουσι. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 24 11:4)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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