ὀργή
See also: οργή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *worǵéh₂, from the root *werǵ-; equivalent to ἔρδω (érdō) + -η (-ē). Compare Proto-Celtic *wergā.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /or.ɡɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /orˈɡe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /orˈʝi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /orˈʝi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /orˈʝi/
Noun
ὀργή • (orgḗ) f (genitive ὀργῆς); first declension
- temper, temperament, disposition, nature, heart
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 304
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.43
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.35
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.89
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 80
- 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 187
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 192
- 7th-6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Demeter 205
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 5.34
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.77
- 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 763
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 356
- 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 53
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.128
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.140
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.83
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.82
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493D
- passion, anger, wrath
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.85
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1241
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.25
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.122
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 855
- 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 80
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 659
- 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Fourth Philippic 44
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.46
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.65
- 349 BCE, Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 16
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 138
- 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 696
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Letters 2.14
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 700
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 727
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 793E
- 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 175
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.73
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 317
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 326
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ὀργή; τῆς ὀργῆς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὀργή hē orgḗ | τὼ ὀργᾱ́ tṑ orgā́ | αἱ ὀργαί hai orgaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὀργῆς tês orgês | τοῖν ὀργαῖν toîn orgaîn | τῶν ὀργῶν tôn orgôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὀργῇ têi orgêi | τοῖν ὀργαῖν toîn orgaîn | ταῖς ὀργαῖς taîs orgaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὀργήν tḕn orgḗn | τὼ ὀργᾱ́ tṑ orgā́ | τᾱ̀ς ὀργᾱ́ς tā̀s orgā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀργή orgḗ | ὀργᾱ́ orgā́ | ὀργαί orgaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀργάω (orgáō)
- ὀργίζω (orgízō, “to make angry”)
Descendants
- Greek: οργή (orgí)
Further reading
- “ὀργή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀργή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀργή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3709 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- anger idem, page 29.
- caprice idem, page 112.
- character idem, page 125.
- displeasure idem, page 237.
- disposition idem, page 237.
- exasperation idem, page 287.
- fury idem, page 351.
- gall idem, page 352.
- heat idem, page 392.
- humour idem, page 410.
- indignation idem, page 433.
- ire idem, page 459.
- mood idem, page 540.
- passion idem, page 597.
- pet idem, page 609.
- rage idem, page 668.
- resentment idem, page 701.
- sharpness idem, page 763.
- temper idem, page 859.
- temperament idem, page 860.
- vexation idem, page 949.
- warmth idem, page 964.
- whim idem, page 976.
- wrath idem, page 992.
- 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