Ὀμφάλιον
See also: ὀμφάλιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel; boss of a shield”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /om.pʰá.li.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /omˈpʰa.li.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /omˈɸa.li.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /omˈfa.li.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /omˈfa.li.on/
Proper noun
Ὀμφᾰ́λῐον • (Omphálion) n (genitive Ὀμφᾰλῐ́ου); second declension
- Omphalium, Epirus, Greece
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ Ὀμφᾰ́λῐον; τοῦ Ὀμφᾰλῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ Ὀμφᾰ́λῐον tò Omphálion | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Ὀμφᾰλῐ́ου toû Omphalíou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Ὀμφᾰλῐ́ῳ tôi Omphalíōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ Ὀμφᾰ́λῐον tò Omphálion | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ὀμφᾰ́λῐον Omphálion | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ὀμφαλιῆες (Omphaliêes)
Descendants
- → Latin: Omphalium
Further reading
- Ὀμφάλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette