While the main page of ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ shows entries
in its wordwheel corresponding to entries in dictionaries (which might merely explain a word form and refer you
to a ‘proper’ entry), and we do offer a parse of words that are entered in a form that exactly
corresponds to a word parsed in our morphological databases, this does not answer all questions about forms, nor
is it easy to type Greek diacritics. Enter, .. Μορφώ!
Ethan Della Rocca (BA 2020) designed Μορφώ to
address these issues. Open it by using the link in the sidebar on the right, or in the link that appears when a
parse is presented to you. In this search bar, you can enter Greek forms in transliteration or in Greek without
diacritics, and as with the main Logeion word wheel, our autocomplete mechanism will go to work for you.
What you see when you look up a form:
with any luck, a lemma (which will take
you to Logeion), and one or more parses. A check mark shows up for parses that we have actually, manually,
applied in our database for forms we encountered in texts.
If a word only occurs with a grave accent in our local corpus, then that is the only form our static database will recognize! Also be aware that our system tries to find, by its lights, the closest alphabetical match to your original query - if we don't have the form, perhaps that close neighbor will nevertheless get you to the dictionary entry you were looking for. With that disclaimer out of the way, this is also where you can try your luck with the local morpheus install for Greek, and Whitaker's Words and LemLat for Latin. Many thanks to Walt Shandruk for his work on implementing these tools.
Next, a short definition and some
frequency information, plus links to search our corpus. For frequent words, we'll also offer some examples
from the corpus right there on the page, which we try to take from popular post-beginner authors.
Finally, a big chart or set of charts. We
hope you are familiar with the big overviews of verb forms (like this one) for
λύω. Our charts will be a bit strange. Many spaces and not a lot of forms filling them, because forms
only get to be on the charts if they have been parsed by a person (we don't trust our databases and neither
should you), and also because reality is simply not like the textbook.. Also, you'll see Homeric forms,
Doric forms, etc., all thrown together with standard Attic. In other words, for prose composition, you still
need to go elsewhere to do your homework!
A huge thank-you to Ethan for adding this new
resource to Logeion! It is named for ‘beauty’ or ‘shapeliness’, as LSJ would have it, a name found in Sparta for
Aphrodite. Here's hoping that you too enjoy the intricate elegance of morphology more with the help of Μορφώ.
A final word. Μορφώ, being Spartan, was not
brought up with a lot of Latin. So to help out when she does not have the answer, we include a link to
Whitaker's words. Check it out for a second opinion!