μόργος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The connection with Ἀμοργός (Amorgós) and ὀμόργνυμι (omórgnumi) is semantically uncompelling. According to Beekes, probably of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

μόργος • (mórgos) m (genitive μόργου); second declension

  1. wicker basket of a cart, used for carrying straw and chaff
  2. leathern vessel

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μόργος; τοῦ μόργου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ μόργος
ho mórgos		 τὼ μόργω
tṑ mórgō		 οἱ μόργοι
hoi mórgoi
Genitive τοῦ μόργου
toû mórgou		 τοῖν μόργοιν
toîn mórgoin		 τῶν μόργων
tôn mórgōn
Dative τῷ μόργῳ
tôi mórgōi		 τοῖν μόργοιν
toîn mórgoin		 τοῖς μόργοις
toîs mórgois
Accusative τὸν μόργον
tòn mórgon		 τὼ μόργω
tṑ mórgō		 τοὺς μόργους
toùs mórgous
Vocative μόργε
mórge		 μόργω
mórgō		 μόργοι
mórgoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • μοργεύω (morgeúō)

Further reading
  • “μόργος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 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
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