ἀνώμαλος
See also: ανώμαλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ᾰ̓- (a-, “un-”) + ὁμᾰλός (homalós, “even, level”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.nɔ̌ː.ma.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈno.ma.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈno.ma.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈno.ma.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈno.ma.los/
Adjective
ᾰ̓νώμᾰλος • (anṓmalos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓νώμᾰλον); second declension
- (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
- (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
- (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
- (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 | |||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||
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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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- irregular idem, page 459.
- lumpy idem, page 504.
- unequal idem, page 916.
- uneven idem, page 916.