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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰór.miŋks/ → /ˈɸor.miŋks/ → /ˈfor.miŋks/
Noun
φόρμιγξ • (phórminx) f (genitive φόρμιγγος); third declension
- (poetic, music) lyre, phorminx
800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Iliad 1.568:
- οὐδέ τι θυμὸς ἐδεύετο δαιτὸς ἐΐσης, οὐ μὲν φόρμιγγος περικαλλέος ἣν ἔχ’ Ἀπόλλων
- oudé ti thumòs edeúeto daitòs eḯsēs, ou mèn phórmingos perikalléos hḕn ékh’ Apóllōn
- Nor did their heart lack anything of the equal feast, nor of the beauteous lyre, that Apollo held.
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References
- “φόρμιγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φόρμιγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φόρμιγξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φόρμιγξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φόρμιγξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “φόρμιγξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- harp idem, page 386.
- lyre idem, page 506.
- 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