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ὁρμαῖς (hormais)

ὁρμαῖς is an Ancient Greek form of ὁρμή, meaning “onset, impulse”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 63 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Themistocles 2.5: ἐν δὲ ταῖς πρώταις τῆς νεότητος ὁρμαῖς ἀνώμαλος ἦν καὶ ἀστάθμητος, ἅτε τῇ φύσει καθʼ αὑτὴν χρώμενος ἄνευ λόγου καὶ παιδείας ἐπʼ ἀμφότερα μεγάλας ποι …

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.