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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from a zero-grade form related to ὀρέγω (orégō, “I stretch”). However, according to Beekes, this explanation meets with semantic and formal difficulties; therefore, he prefers a Pre-Greek etymology, comparing the suffix -υια to words from the substrate, like Ἅρπυια (Hárpuia) and ἄγυια (águia)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ór.ɡyː.a/ → /ˈor.ʝy.a/ → /ˈor.ʝi.a/
Noun
ὄργυιᾰ • (órguia) f (genitive ὀργυίᾱς); first declension
- fathom
- Και βολισαντες ευρον οργυιας εικοσι, βραχυ δε διαστησαντες, και παλιν βολισαντες, ευρον οργυιας δεκαπεντε.
- They sounded and found twenty fathoms, went a bit farther, sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. Acts 27:28
Inflection
Further reading
- “ὄργυια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄργυια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄργυια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄργυια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὄργυια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὄργυια”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1098