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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Could be from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“flow, stream”), and thus cognate to Sanskrit सर्म (sárma, “going, running, flowing”), from root सरति (sarati, “to flow, run, speed”), and Albanian gjurmë. Could also be from ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “I urge on, incite”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hor.mɛ̌ː/ → /orˈmi/ → /orˈmi/
Noun
ὁρμή • (hormḗ) f (genitive ὁρμῆς); first declension
- violent pressure, assault, force
- first movements, beginning, start
- eagerness, struggle, effort
- violence, passion, appetite
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Further reading
- “ὁρμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὁρμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὁρμή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὁρμή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὁρμή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3730 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.
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