ἀνώμαλος

See also: ανώμαλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ᾰ̓- (a-, “un-”) +‎ ὁμᾰλός (homalós, “even, level”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.nɔ̌ː.ma.los/ → /aˈno.ma.los/ → /aˈno.ma.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.nɔ̌ː.ma.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈno.ma.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈno.ma.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈno.ma.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈno.ma.los/

Adjective

ᾰ̓νώμᾰλος • (anṓmalos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓νώμᾰλον); second declension

1. (literally and figuratively) uneven, irregular
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 625d
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 58a
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.71
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 885a.15
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aër. 13
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 5.228b.16
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 4.772b.7
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 5.788a.1
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 5.238a.22
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 52e
2. (of conditions and fortune) precarious
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 684
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 773b
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Menexenus 238e
   • 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 6.7.34
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 3
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 7.29
   • Prisc. p.333D
3. (of persons) inconsistent, capricious
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1454a.26
   • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Civil Wars 3.42
   • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Punic Wars 59
   • Phryn., Com. 20
   • Palatine Anthology 10.96
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 9.44
4. (grammar) of words which deviate from a general rule, anomalous
   • Diom. 1.327
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 291.17
   • Sch.Th., Oxy. 853v.18

Declension

Second declension of ᾰ̓νώμᾰλος; ᾰ̓νώμᾰλον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ᾰ̓νώμᾰλος anṓmalos	ᾰ̓νώμᾰλον anṓmalon		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λω anōmálō	ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λω anōmálō		ᾰ̓νώμᾰλοι anṓmaloi	ᾰ̓νώμᾰλᾰ anṓmala
Genitive		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λου anōmálou	ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λου anōmálou		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λοιν anōmáloin	ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λοιν anōmáloin		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λων anōmálōn	ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λων anōmálōn
Dative		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λῳ anōmálōi	ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λῳ anōmálōi		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λοιν anōmáloin	ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λοιν anōmáloin		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λοις anōmálois	ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λοις anōmálois
Accusative		ᾰ̓νώμᾰλον anṓmalon	ᾰ̓νώμᾰλον anṓmalon		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λω anōmálō	ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λω anōmálō		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λους anōmálous	ᾰ̓νώμᾰλᾰ anṓmala
Vocative		ᾰ̓νώμᾰλε anṓmale	ᾰ̓νώμᾰλον anṓmalon		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λω anōmálō	ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λω anōmálō		ᾰ̓νώμᾰλοι anṓmaloi	ᾰ̓νώμᾰλᾰ anṓmala
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		ᾰ̓νωμᾰ́λως anōmálōs			ᾰ̓νωμᾰλώτερος anōmalṓteros			ᾰ̓νωμᾰλώτᾰτος anōmalṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλέω (anōmaléō)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλής (anōmalḗs)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλῐ́ᾱ (anōmalíā)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλίζω (anōmalízō)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλοκράς (anōmalokrás)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλότης (anōmalótēs)

Descendants

• → Latin: anōmalos, anōmalus (see there for further descendants)
• Greek: ανώμαλος (anómalos)

Further reading

• “ἀνώμαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀνώμαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀνώμαλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀνώμαλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • irregular idem, page 459.
  • lumpy idem, page 504.
  • unequal idem, page 916.
  • uneven idem, page 916.