Inflection

Greek Learning Greek
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There used to be a good website dedicated to the inflection of words (both verb conjugations and noun declensions) so that when I typed in a a word like λύω, it would tell me all its variants (all moods, all tenses, all voices, all numbers, all persons, and so on). Since I can’t seem to find this website anymore, is there any other that you would recommend for this purpose? As of now, I am using Wiktionary, but it contains only a handful of words.

To be more precise, assume that I would like to know the indicative aorist middle 1st person plural of δηλόω, is there any website that would list all its inflected forms, so that I can look at the chart and figure out what I want is ἐδηλωσάμεθα? This would really prove helpful to me.

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Μορφώ Is associated with Logeion and provides all known forms of verbs and adjectives:
https://logeion.uchicago.edu/morpho/λύω
If you’re in Logeion, look up at the top right of the page and you’ll see “Consult Μορφώ”. If you’re in Μορφώ, and want to return to Logeion, just go to same area of the page and click “Consult Logeion”. For some reason though, if you try enter the simple URL “logeion.uchicago.edu/morpho” (with https;// of course)it will just give an error.

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Thank you. But one question: why are there many blank spaces in the charts? For example, why does it skip from 1st person λύω to 3rd person λύει (skipping over 2nd person λύεις)?

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To be honest, Haeretikon, I’m not really sure. I believe it shows only the forms that actually appear in the corpus of Greek literature, and for that matter, perhaps, not the entire corpus . If you type in λύεις, however, it will parse it for you. Here’s an example of what I mean: in the Odyssey, you’ll encounter the word ‘δαήσεαι’ (thou wilt learn). If you look it up in Morpho, you’ll only find a few forms, δαήσεαι being one of them. If you look up δάω in the corpus, you’ll only find those forms; you won’t find an instance of δἀω, only that one instance of the 2p, sing. future middle indicative, a number aorist forms and a very few perfect forms. If you look it up in the corpus, those are the only forms cited. To tell you the truth, I stay away from this tool, because it doesn’t allow me to exercise my memory of the forms and my ability to parse forms on my own.

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I see. It is very surprising, however, that such a simple word as λύεις does not have even a single instance in the whole of Greek literature.

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Which is why I suspect that the corpus they’re referring to does not contain every work in Greek Literature. Actually, upon closer inspection of the page, There’s a section on the right which shows frequency and a number of Greek authors. I imagine that’s the “corpus”. Below that, it also shows its presence in several textbooks and the chapters it can be found in.

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The UChicago corpus originates from the Tufts Perseus corpus from a few years back. After that, I don’t think that the two projects shared resources very much. However, even they have λύεις occurring twice in Euripides.

Presumably they have a smaller body of thoroughly tagged texts that Morpho draws from.

I suppose this is where they got the name:

προελθοῦσι δὲ οὐ πολὺ λόφος ἐστὶν οὐ μέγας, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτῷ ναὸς ἀρχαῖος καὶ Ἀφροδίτης ξόανον ὡπλισμένης. ναῶν δὲ ὧν οἶδα μόνῳ τούτῳ καὶ ὑπερῷον ἄλλο ἐπῳκοδόμηται Μορφοῦς ἱερόν. ἐπίκλησις μὲν δὴ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἐστὶν ἡ Μορφώ, κάθηται δὲ καλύπτραν τε ἔχουσα καὶ πέδας περὶ τοῖς ποσί· περιθεῖναι δέ οἱ Τυνδάρεων τὰς πέδας φασὶν ἀφομοιοῦντα τοῖς δεσμοῖς τὸ ἐς τοὺς συνοικοῦντας τῶν γυναικῶν βέβαιον. τὸν γὰρ δὴ ἕτερον λόγον, ὡς τὴν θεὸν πέδαις ἐτιμωρεῖτο ὁ Τυνδάρεως, γενέσθαι ταῖς θυγατράσιν ἐξ Ἀφροδίτης ἡγούμενος τὰ ὀνείδη, τοῦτον οὐδὲ ἀρχὴν προσίεμαι· ἦν γὰρ δὴ παντάπασιν εὔηθες κέδρου ποιησάμενον ζῴδιον καὶ ὄνομα Ἀφροδίτην θέμενον ἐλπίζειν ἀμύνεσθαι τὴν θεόν.

Maybe could think of these limitations as “πέδαι περὶ τοῖς ποσί.”