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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Like the rhyming word ὀρφνός (orphnós, “dark”), this word is usually explained from a meaning "dark-colored". Similar words are μοριφόν (moriphón, “dark, black”), μορύσσω (morússō, “to soil, defile”), as well as μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). Connection with μορφή (morphḗ, “form”) cannot be proven. The word has also been connected to Sanskrit मृग (mṛga, “deer, antelope”), with an influence from νηττοφόνος (nēttophónos, “kind of eagle”); doubtful in view of the haplology that has to be assumed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mór.pʰnos/ → /ˈmor.ɸnos/ → /ˈmor.fnos/
Noun
μόρφνος • (mórphnos) m (genitive μόρφνου); second declension
- kind of eagle
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “μόρφνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μόρφνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μόρφνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μόρφνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μόρφνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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