μορέα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

μορέη (moréē) — Ionic

Etymology

From μόρον (móron, “black mulberry”) +‎ -έᾱ (-éā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mo.ré.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /moˈre.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /moˈre.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /moˈre.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /moˈre.a/

Noun

μορέᾱ • (moréā) f (genitive μορέᾱς); first declension

mulberry tree
- 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 69–71:
  ἄλλοτε καὶ μορέης ἀπὸ ῥίζεα φοινηέσσης
  ὅλμου ἐνὶ στύπεϊ προβαλὼν καὶ ὁμήρεα κόψας
  οἴνῳ, ἐνεψηθέντα πόροις καμάτοισι μελίσσης[.]
  állote kaì moréēs apò rhízea phoinēéssēs
  hólmou enì stúpeï probalṑn kaì homḗrea kópsas
  oínōi, enepsēthénta pórois kamátoisi melíssēs[.]
  And at other times, the roots of the blood-red mulberry-tree,
  having thrown them into the hollow of a mortar and having ground them up mingled
  with wine, you should offer boiled in the labours of the bee.

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading

“μορέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μορέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
μορέα - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

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