ὤμιλλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained, perhaps Pre-Greek in view of the suffix.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.mil.la/ → /ˈo.mil.la/ → /ˈo.mi.la/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̌ː.mil.la/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mil.la/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mil.la/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mil.la/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.la/

Noun

ὤμῐλλᾰ • (ṓmilla) f (genitive ὠμῐ́λλης); first declension

1. game in which nuts were thrown into a ring
2. (figuratively) party, circle, sociable meeting

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὤμῐλλᾰ; τῆς ὠμῐ́λλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὤμῐλλᾰ hē ṓmilla	τὼ ὠμῐ́λλᾱ tṑ ōmíllā	αἱ ὤμῐλλαι hai ṓmillai
Genitive	τῆς ὠμῐ́λλης tês ōmíllēs	τοῖν ὠμῐ́λλαιν toîn ōmíllain	τῶν ὠμῐλλῶν tôn ōmillôn
Dative	τῇ ὠμῐ́λλῃ têi ōmíllēi	τοῖν ὠμῐ́λλαιν toîn ōmíllain	ταῖς ὠμῐ́λλαις taîs ōmíllais
Accusative	τὴν ὤμῐλλᾰν tḕn ṓmillan	τὼ ὠμῐ́λλᾱ tṑ ōmíllā	τᾱ̀ς ὠμῐ́λλᾱς tā̀s ōmíllās
Vocative	ὤμῐλλᾰ ṓmilla	ὠμῐ́λλᾱ ōmíllā	ὤμῐλλαι ṓmillai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ὤμιλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὤμιλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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