# μορφή
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Of unclear origin:
* Many attempts have been made to connect it with Latin fōrma (“form”) (see there for theory of its origin), but the proposed relationship is problematic. Beekes suggests that the Latin was either loaned from Greek via an intermediary like Etruscan, or that the Latin and Greek were both inherited from a Proto-Indo-European *mergʷʰ-, with the Latin undergoing metathesis > *gʷʰerm- > *gʷʰorm- > *form-.
* An alternative relationship has been proposed with Baltic terms like Latgalian mārga (“daughter, lass”) and Lithuanian mergà (“girl”), with a semantic shift "shape" > "lovely shape" > "girl". If so, then the Greek and Baltic terms are from, per Beekes, a Proto-Indo-European *mergʷʰ-h₂-, with the Greek deriving from an o-grade. However, the Baltic terms are more commonly derived from a root *mer- (“young boy, girl”) (whence Latin marītus (“husband”)), making this theory doubtful.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mor.pʰɛ̌ː/ → /morˈɸi/ → /morˈfi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /mor.pʰɛ̌ː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /morˈpʰe̝/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /morˈɸi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /morˈfi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /morˈfi/

### Noun

μορφή • (morphḗ) f (genitive μορφῆς); first declension
* shape, form
* appearance
* outline
* kind, type

#### Derived terms

* Μορφεύς (Morpheús)
* μορφόω (morphóō)
* πεντᾰ́μορφος (pentắmorphos)
* τετρᾰ́μορφος (tetrắmorphos)

#### Descendants

* Greek: μορφή f (morfí)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μορφή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 969-70
* ↑ Wojciech Smoczyński (2021) “mergà”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego

### Further reading

* “μορφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “μορφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “μορφή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* μορφή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* μορφή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G3444 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. appearance idem, page 35.fashion idem, page 308.figure idem, page 319.form idem, page 338.shape idem, page 762.

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ).

### Noun

μορφή • (morfí) f (plural μορφές)
* form, shape

#### Related terms

* αγγελόμορφος (angelómorfos, “angelic”)
* αμεταμόρφωτος (ametamórfotos, “untransformed”)
* αμορφία f (amorfía, “shapelessness”)
* αμορφοποίητος (amorfopoíitos, “unshaped”)
* άμορφος (ámorfos, “amorphous, shapeless”)
* μεταμορφώνω (metamorfóno, “to transform”)
* όμορφος (ómorfos, “beautiful”)
* and compare with: μόρφωση f (mórfosi, “education”)