ὅρμησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ὁρμᾰ́ω (hormáō, “set in motion, urge on, inspire, rush, hasten”, future stem: ὁρμησ-, hormēs-) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hór.mɛː.sis/ → /ˈor.mi.sis/ → /ˈor.mi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hór.mɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)or.me̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.mi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.mi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.mi.sis/

Noun

ὅρμησῐς • (hórmēsis) f (genitive ὁρμήσεως); third declension

1. rapid motion
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.487, (scholion)
2. eagerness
   • 120 CE – 175 CE, Vettius Valens, Anthology 60.18:

     ἐπὶ στρατείαν

     epì strateían

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὅρμησῐς; τῆς ὁρμήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὅρμησῐς hē hórmēsis	τὼ ὁρμήσει tṑ hormḗsei	αἱ ὁρμήσεις hai hormḗseis
Genitive	τῆς ὁρμήσεως tês hormḗseōs	τοῖν ὁρμησέοιν toîn hormēséoin	τῶν ὁρμήσεων tôn hormḗseōn
Dative	τῇ ὁρμήσει têi hormḗsei	τοῖν ὁρμησέοιν toîn hormēséoin	ταῖς ὁρμήσεσῐ / ὁρμήσεσῐν taîs hormḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὅρμησῐν tḕn hórmēsin	τὼ ὁρμήσει tṑ hormḗsei	τᾱ̀ς ὁρμήσεις tā̀s hormḗseis
Vocative	ὅρμησῐ hórmēsi	ὁρμήσει hormḗsei	ὁρμήσεις hormḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Catalan: hormesi
• → Czech: hormeze
• → Danish: hormese, hormesis
• → Dutch: hormese, hormesis
• → English: hormesis
• → Finnish: hormeesi
• → French: hormèse, hormésis
• → German: Hormesis
• → Italian: ormesi
• → Polish: hormeza
• → Portuguese: hormese
• → Russian: гормезис (gormezis), гермезис (germezis)
• → Spanish: hormesis
• → Swedish: hormesis
• → Ukrainian: гормезис (hormezys)

Further reading

• “ὅρμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “ὅρμησις”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn