ὀργή

See also: οργή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *worǵéh₂, from the root *werǵ-; equivalent to ἔρδω (érdō) +‎ -η (-ē). Compare Proto-Celtic *wergā.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /or.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /orˈʝi/ → /orˈʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /or.ɡɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /orˈɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /orˈʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /orˈʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /orˈʝi/

Noun

ὀργή • (orgḗ) f (genitive ὀργῆς); first declension

1. temper, temperament, disposition, nature, heart
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 304
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.43
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.35
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.89
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 80
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 187
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 192
   • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Demeter 205
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 5.34
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.77
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 763
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 356
   • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 53
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.128
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.140
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.83
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.82
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493D
2. passion, anger, wrath
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.85
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1241
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.25
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.122
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 855
   • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 80
   • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 659
   • 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Fourth Philippic 44
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.46
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.65
   • 349 BCE, Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 16
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 138
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 696
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Letters 2.14
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 700
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 727
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 793E
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 175
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.73
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 317
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 326

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀργή; τῆς ὀργῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀργή hē orgḗ	τὼ ὀργᾱ́ tṑ orgā́	αἱ ὀργαί hai orgaí
Genitive	τῆς ὀργῆς tês orgês	τοῖν ὀργαῖν toîn orgaîn	τῶν ὀργῶν tôn orgôn
Dative	τῇ ὀργῇ têi orgêi	τοῖν ὀργαῖν toîn orgaîn	ταῖς ὀργαῖς taîs orgaîs
Accusative	τὴν ὀργήν tḕn orgḗn	τὼ ὀργᾱ́ tṑ orgā́	τᾱ̀ς ὀργᾱ́ς tā̀s orgā́s
Vocative	ὀργή orgḗ	ὀργᾱ́ orgā́	ὀργαί orgaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀργάω (orgáō)
• ὀργίζω (orgízō, “to make angry”)

Related terms

• ὄργῐᾰ (órgia) (probably from the same root)

Descendants

• Greek: οργή (orgí)

Further reading

• “ὀργή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀργή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀργή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3709 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anger idem, page 29.
  • caprice idem, page 112.
  • character idem, page 125.
  • displeasure idem, page 237.
  • disposition idem, page 237.
  • exasperation idem, page 287.
  • fury idem, page 351.
  • gall idem, page 352.
  • heat idem, page 392.
  • humour idem, page 410.
  • indignation idem, page 433.
  • ire idem, page 459.
  • mood idem, page 540.
  • passion idem, page 597.
  • pet idem, page 609.
  • rage idem, page 668.
  • resentment idem, page 701.
  • sharpness idem, page 763.
  • temper idem, page 859.
  • temperament idem, page 860.
  • vexation idem, page 949.
  • warmth idem, page 964.
  • whim idem, page 976.
  • wrath idem, page 992.
• 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