ὁμιλία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὅμῑλος (hómīlos, “a crowd or gathering of people”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.miː.lí.aː/ → /o.miˈli.a/ → /o.miˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.miː.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.miˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.miˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.miˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.miˈli.a/

Noun

ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ • (homīlíā) f (genitive ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. intercourse, interaction, company
2. sexual intercourse
3. instruction, homily

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ hē homīlíā	τὼ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ tṑ homīlíā	αἱ ὁμῑλῐ́αι hai homīlíai
Genitive	τῆς ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱς tês homīlíās	τοῖν ὁμῑλῐ́αιν toîn homīlíain	τῶν ὁμῑλῐῶν tôn homīliôn
Dative	τῇ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾳ têi homīlíāi	τοῖν ὁμῑλῐ́αιν toîn homīlíain	ταῖς ὁμῑλῐ́αις taîs homīlíais
Accusative	τὴν ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱν tḕn homīlíān	τὼ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ tṑ homīlíā	τᾱ̀ς ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s homīlíās
Vocative	ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ homīlíā	ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ homīlíā	ὁμῑλῐ́αι homīlíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: homīlia

References

• “ὁμιλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press