Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄρφνᾱ ‎(órphnā) Doric

Noun

ὄρφνη • ‎(órphnē) f ‎(genitive ὄρφνης); first declension

1. darkness of night, night
   • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1077
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.71
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.23
   • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 994
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 5.7
   • Ti.Locr. 97c
     97d
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 18.19.7
   • 300 CE – 500 CE, Stobaeus, Anthology 4.23.61a
   1. darkness of the nether world
      • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 46
        353

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References

• ὄρφνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄρφνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὄρφνη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • darkness idem, page 195.
  • gloom idem, page 362.
  • murkiness idem, page 547.
  • obscurity idem, page 566.

1. 1 2 3 4 Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ὄρφνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1114
2. ↑ Adams, Douglas Q. (1999), “erkent-”, in A dictionary of Tocharian B (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi