ὠμός

See also: ώμος, ωμός, and ὦμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ōmós, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emós, *h₂eh₃mós (“raw, bitter, sour”). Cognates include Sanskrit आम (āmá), Old Armenian հում (hum, “raw”), and Irish amh.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔː.mós/ → /oˈmos/ → /oˈmos/

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

Adjective

ὠμός • (ōmós) m (feminine ὠμή, neuter ὠμόν); first/second declension

1. raw, crude, undressed
2. (of flesh) raw, uncooked
3. (figuratively) savage, fierce, cruel

Inflection

First and second declension of ὠμός; ὠμή; ὠμόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ὠμός ōmós	ὠμή ōmḗ	ὠμόν ōmón		ὠμώ ōmṓ	ὠμᾱ́ ōmā́	ὠμώ ōmṓ		ὠμοί ōmoí	ὠμαί ōmaí	ὠμᾰ́ ōmá
Genitive		ὠμοῦ ōmoû	ὠμῆς ōmês	ὠμοῦ ōmoû		ὠμοῖν ōmoîn	ὠμαῖν ōmaîn	ὠμοῖν ōmoîn		ὠμῶν ōmôn	ὠμῶν ōmôn	ὠμῶν ōmôn
Dative		ὠμῷ ōmôi	ὠμῇ ōmêi	ὠμῷ ōmôi		ὠμοῖν ōmoîn	ὠμαῖν ōmaîn	ὠμοῖν ōmoîn		ὠμοῖς ōmoîs	ὠμαῖς ōmaîs	ὠμοῖς ōmoîs
Accusative		ὠμόν ōmón	ὠμήν ōmḗn	ὠμόν ōmón		ὠμώ ōmṓ	ὠμᾱ́ ōmā́	ὠμώ ōmṓ		ὠμούς ōmoús	ὠμᾱ́ς ōmā́s	ὠμᾰ́ ōmá
Vocative		ὠμέ ōmé	ὠμή ōmḗ	ὠμόν ōmón		ὠμώ ōmṓ	ὠμᾱ́ ōmā́	ὠμώ ōmṓ		ὠμοί ōmoí	ὠμαί ōmaí	ὠμᾰ́ ōmá
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ὠμῶς ōmôs				ὠμότερος ōmóteros				ὠμότᾰτος ōmótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὠμόλῐνον (ōmólinon)
• ὠμοτρῐβής (ōmotribḗs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ωμός (omós)

Further reading

• “ὠμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὠμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὠμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὠμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὠμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • atrocious idem, page 49.
  • barbarous idem, page 62.
  • bitter idem, page 80.
  • brutal idem, page 102.
  • crude idem, page 187.
  • cruel idem, page 187.
  • devilish idem, page 220.
  • fell idem, page 314.
  • ferocious idem, page 316.
  • fiendish idem, page 318.
  • fierce idem, page 318.
  • hard idem, page 385.
  • heartless idem, page 392.
  • raw idem, page 674.
  • savage idem, page 735.
  • sour idem, page 796.
  • truculent idem, page 898.
  • unripe idem, page 930.
  • wild idem, page 979.