Ancient Greek

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
   • 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 493.D
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 793.E
   • 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

Derived terms

• ὀργίζω ‎(orgízō, “to make angry”)

Descendants

• Greek: οργή ‎(orgí)

References

• 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’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.
  • 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.
  • Fury idem, page 1011.
  • 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 762.
  • temper idem, page 859.
  • temperament idem, page 860.
  • vexation idem, page 949.
  • warmth idem, page 963.
  • 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