τόρμος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tórmos, *torh₂mo- (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to rub, bore, twist”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *þarmaz (“gut, intestine”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tór.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtor.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtor.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtor.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtor.mos/
Noun
τόρμος • (tórmos) m (genitive τορμου); second declension
- A hole or socket in which a peg is stuck
- A nave of a wheel
- A tenon
- A projecting peg or pivot
Declension
Second declension of ὁ τόρμος; τοῦ τόρμου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τόρμος ho tórmos | τὼ τόρμω tṑ tórmō | οἱ τόρμοι hoi tórmoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τόρμου toû tórmou | τοῖν τόρμοιν toîn tórmoin | τῶν τόρμων tôn tórmōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τόρμῳ tôi tórmōi | τοῖν τόρμοιν toîn tórmoin | τοῖς τόρμοις toîs tórmois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τόρμον tòn tórmon | τὼ τόρμω tṑ tórmō | τοὺς τόρμους toùs tórmous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τόρμε tórme | τόρμω tórmō | τόρμοι tórmoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τόρμη (tórmē)
- τορμίον (tormíon)
- τορμικά (tormiká)
Further reading
- τόρμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τόρμος 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