οὐλαμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *wel-, the same root of εἰλέω (eiléō, “to press together”), with an o-grade root and suffixal -αμ-, which is found also in ποταμός (potamós) and πλόκαμος (plókamos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /uː.la.mós/ → /u.laˈmos/ → /u.laˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /uː.la.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /u.laˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /u.laˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /u.laˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /u.laˈmos/

Noun

οὐλᾰμός • (oulamós) m (genitive οὐλᾰμοῦ); second declension

1. throng of warriors
2. troop of cavalry

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ οὐλᾰμός; τοῦ οὐλᾰμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ οὐλᾰμός ho oulamós	τὼ οὐλᾰμώ tṑ oulamṓ	οἱ οὐλᾰμοί hoi oulamoí
Genitive	τοῦ οὐλᾰμοῦ toû oulamoû	τοῖν οὐλᾰμοῖν toîn oulamoîn	τῶν οὐλᾰμῶν tôn oulamôn
Dative	τῷ οὐλᾰμῷ tôi oulamôi	τοῖν οὐλᾰμοῖν toîn oulamoîn	τοῖς οὐλᾰμοῖς toîs oulamoîs
Accusative	τὸν οὐλᾰμόν tòn oulamón	τὼ οὐλᾰμώ tṑ oulamṓ	τοὺς οὐλᾰμούς toùs oulamoús
Vocative	οὐλᾰμέ oulamé	οὐλᾰμώ oulamṓ	οὐλᾰμοί oulamoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• οὐλαμηφόρος (oulamēphóros)
• οὐλαμοεργός (oulamoergós)
• οὐλαμώνυμος (oulamṓnumos)

 

References

• “οὐλαμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὐλαμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὐλαμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὐλαμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• οὐλαμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN