ὁρμήν (hormen)

ὁρμήν is an Ancient Greek form of ὁρμή, meaning “onset, impulse”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 328 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.85: Τὴν δὲ πρώτην ὁρμήν φασι τὸ ζῷον ἴσχειν ἐπὶ τὸ τηρεῖν ἑαυτό, οἰκειούσης αὑτῷ τῆς φύσεως ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς, καθά φησιν ὁ Χρύσιππος ἐν τῷ π …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 19.7.1: … χολαιοτέρᾳ τῇ πτήσει πρὸς ἀγαθοῦ εἶναι συμβόλου, τοῖς δὲ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἐφιεμένοις οἱ τὴν ἐπίτομον καὶ ταχεῖαν ὀρμὴν ἔχοντες εἰς τὰ πρόσω· οὗτοι μὲν γὰρ πορισταί τε καὶ θηρευταὶ τῶν οὐχ ὑπαρχόντων εἰσίν, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ ἐπίσκοποι κ …

All forms of ὁρμή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.