1. ὄργυια · orgyia — Chantraine
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ὄργυια
orguia
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What it meant
2. ὄργυια · orgyia — Frisk
3. ὄργυιᾰ · orgyia — LSJ
the length of the outstretched arms, about 6 feet or 1 fathom, ἕστηκε ξύλον . . ὅσον τʼ ὄργυιʼ ὑπὲρ αἴης Il. 23.327 ; τοῦ μὲν ὅσον τʼ ὄργυιαν ἐγὼν ἀπέκοψα Od. 9.325, cf. 10.167, X. Mem. 2.3.19.
more precisely, αἱ ἑκατὸν ὀργυιαὶ δίκαιαί εἰσι στάδιον ἑξάπλεθρον, ἑξαπέδου τῆς ὀργυιῆς μετρεομένης καὶ τετραπήχεος Hdt. 2.149, cf. 4.41, 86, PHal. 1.98 (iii B. C.), POxy. 669.39 (iii A. D.).
rod for measuring land, = 9 1/4 σπιθαμαὶ βασιλικαί, Hero *Geom. 4.11 :—poet. also ὀρόγυια (q.v.): in compds. -ωρυγ-, v. δεκ-ώρυγος. (Proparox. in nom. and acc. sg., Hom. ll.cc. ; oxyt. or perispom. in other cases, cf. Hdn.Gr. 2.613, al. ; in Ion. the nom. and acc. sg. end in -ᾰ, -ᾰν, as in Att., Hom. ll.cc., the gen. and dat. sg. in -ῆς, -ῇ (acc. ὀργυιήν before consonant in Arat. 69, 196, is corrected to ὄργυιαν by Voss); ὀργυιά, -άν in late Gr., Hero l.c., etc.)
In the wild
- ὀργυιαί · orgyiai Herodotus, Histories 2.124.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2443)
- ὀργυιαί · orgyiai Herodotus, Histories 2.124.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2443)
- ὀργυιέων · orgyieōn Herodotus, Histories 2.138.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2542)
- ὀργυιὰς · orgyias Herodotus, Histories 2.149.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2637)
- ὀργυιαὶ · orgyiai Herodotus, Histories 2.149.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2638)
- ὀργυιῆς · orgyiēs Herodotus, Histories 2.149.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2638)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὄργυια (scan pp. 833-834; entry #6000).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὄργυια (scan p. 1384; entry #4314).
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