Ancient Greek

Noun

ὁρμή • ‎(hormḗ) f ‎(genitive ὁρμῆς); first declension

1. violent pressure, assault, force
2. first movements, beginning, start
3. eagerness, struggle, effort
4. violence, passion, appetite

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: ορμή f ‎(ormí)

References

• ὁρμή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὁρμή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὁρμή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὁρμή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὁρμή» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G3730”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • aggravation idem, page 18.
  • ardour idem, page 39.
  • boisterousness idem, page 88.
  • caprice idem, page 112.
  • charge idem, page 125.
  • dash idem, page 196.
  • eagerness idem, page 258.
  • fit idem, page 323.
  • freak idem, page 343.
  • furiousness idem, page 350.
  • fury idem, page 351.
  • Fury idem, page 1011.
  • impetuosity idem, page 421.
  • impetus idem, page 421.
  • impulse idem, page 425.
  • incentive idem, page 427.
  • inclination idem, page 428.
  • itch idem, page 461.
  • mania idem, page 511.
  • Mania idem, page 1016.
  • momentum idem, page 539.
  • motive idem, page 542.
  • propensity idem, page 653.
  • rush idem, page 727.
  • spurt idem, page 807.
  • sweep idem, page 847.
  • vagary idem, page 942.
  • whim idem, page 976.
  • whirl idem, page 976.
  • wish idem, page 983.