ὄργυια

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ór.ɡyː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ɡy.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ʝy.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ʝy.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ʝi.a/

Noun

ὄργυιᾰ • (órguia) f (genitive ὀργυίᾱς); first declension

1. 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

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄργυιᾰ hē órguia	τὼ ὀργυίᾱ tṑ orguíā	αἱ ὄργυιαι hai órguiai
Genitive	τῆς ὀργυίᾱς tês orguíās	τοῖν ὀργυίαιν toîn orguíain	τῶν ὀργυιῶν tôn orguiôn
Dative	τῇ ὀργυίᾳ têi orguíāi	τοῖν ὀργυίαιν toîn orguíain	ταῖς ὀργυίαις taîs orguíais
Accusative	τὴν ὄργυιᾰν tḕn órguian	τὼ ὀργυίᾱ tṑ orguíā	τᾱ̀ς ὀργυίᾱς tā̀s orguíās
Vocative	ὄργυιᾰ órguia	ὀργυίᾱ orguíā	ὄργυιαι órguiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ἡ ὄργυιᾰ; τῆς ὀργυίᾱς (Attic)

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.
  • fathom idem, page 310.
  • pace idem, page 588.
• 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