Ἀμόργης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Persian *ʰUmarga- (literally “with good meadows, with excellent meadows”)[1][2][3], from *hu- (“good”) + *marga- (“meadow, pasture”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.mór.ɡɛːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ɡe̝s/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ʝis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ʝis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈmor.ʝis/

Proper noun

Ἀμόργης • (Amórgēs) m (genitive Ἀμόργου); third declension

a male given name from Old Persian: Amorges, son of Pissuthnes

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Ἀμόργης; τοῦ Ἀμόργου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἀμόργης ho Amórgēs
Genitive	τοῦ Ἀμόργου toû Amórgou
Dative	τῷ Ἀμόργῃ tôi Amórgēi
Accusative	τὸν Ἀμόργην tòn Amórgēn
Vocative	Ἀμόργη Amórgē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Latin: Amorgēs

Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 121
Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 206
Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, "AMORGES" in Encyclopædia Iranica, December 15, 1989

[1] Hinz, Walther (1975) Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 121

[2] Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 206

[3] Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, "AMORGES" in Encyclopædia Iranica, December 15, 1989