ὀργασμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ὀργάω (orgáō) + -σμός (-smós)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /or.ɡaz.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /or.ɡazˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /or.ɣazˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /or.ɣazˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /or.ɣazˈmos/
Noun
ὀργασμός • (orgasmós) m (genitive ὀργασμοῦ); second declension
- orgasm
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Humors 3
Declension
Second declension of ὁ ὀργασμός; τοῦ ὀργασμοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὀργασμός ho orgasmós | τὼ ὀργασμώ tṑ orgasmṓ | οἱ ὀργασμοί hoi orgasmoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὀργασμοῦ toû orgasmoû | τοῖν ὀργασμοῖν toîn orgasmoîn | τῶν ὀργασμῶν tôn orgasmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὀργασμῷ tôi orgasmôi | ὀργασμοῖν orgasmoîn | τοῖς ὀργασμοῖς toîs orgasmoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὀργασμόν tòn orgasmón | ὀργασμώ orgasmṓ | τοὺς ὀργασμούς toùs orgasmoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀργασμέ orgasmé | ὀργασμώ orgasmṓ | ὀργασμοί orgasmoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- → Afrikaans: orgasme
- → Albanian: orgazmë
- → Belarusian: арга́зм (arházm)
- → Bulgarian: оргазъм (orgazǎm)
- → Czech: orgasmus
- → Danish: orgasme
- → Dutch: orgasme
- → Indonesian: orgasme
- → English: orgasm
- → Hindi: ओगाज़्म (ogāzma)
- → Japanese: オーガズム (ōgazumu)
- → Korean: 오르가슴 (oreugaseum)
- → Welsh: orgasm
- → Estonian: orgasm
- → Faroese: orgasma
- → Finnish: orgasmi
- → Georgian: ორგაზმი (orgazmi)
- → German: Orgasmus
- → Japanese: オルガスムス (orugasumu)
- Greek: οργασμός (orgasmós)
- → Hebrew: אוֹרְגַּזְמָה (orgázma)
- → Hungarian: orgazmus
- → Kurdish: orgazm
- → Latin: orgasmus
- Catalan: orgasme
- French: orgasme
- Galician: orgasmo
- Italian: orgasmo
- → Portuguese: orgasmo
- → Romanian: orgasm
- → Spanish: orgasmo
- → Basque: orgasmo
- → Cebuano: orgasmo
- → Latvian: orgazmas
- → Lithuanian: orgazmas
- → Macedonian: оргазам (orgazam)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: orgasme
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: orgasme
- → Persian: ارگاسم (orgâsm)
- → Polish: orgazm
- → Russian: оргазм (orgazm)
- → Armenian: օրգազմ (ōrgazm)
- → Serbo-Croatian: orgàzam
- → Slovak: orgazmus
- → Slovene: orgázəm
- → Swedish: orgasm
- → Turkish: orgazm
- → Ukrainian: оргазм (orhazm)
- → Yiddish: אָרגאַזם (orgazm)
Further reading
- ὀργασμός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press