ὄργυια

Ancient Greek

From a zero-grade form related to ὀρέγω (orégō, “I stretch”).

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

First declension of ἡ ὄργυιᾰ; τῆς ὀργυίᾱς (Attic)

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.

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.

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