ὀμφή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *honkʷʰā́, from Proto-Indo-European *songʷʰ-éh₂, from *sengʷʰ-. Cognate with English song.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /om.pʰɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /omˈpʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /omˈɸi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /omˈfi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /omˈfi/
Noun
ὀμφή • (omphḗ) f (genitive ὀμφῆς); first declension
- (poetic) voice, oracle
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ὀμφή; τῆς ὀμφῆς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὀμφή hē omphḗ | τὼ ὀμφᾱ́ tṑ omphā́ | αἱ ὀμφαί hai omphaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὀμφῆς tês omphês | τοῖν ὀμφαῖν toîn omphaîn | τῶν ὀμφῶν tôn omphôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὀμφῇ têi omphêi | τοῖν ὀμφαῖν toîn omphaîn | ταῖς ὀμφαῖς taîs omphaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὀμφήν tḕn omphḗn | τὼ ὀμφᾱ́ tṑ omphā́ | τᾱ̀ς ὀμφᾱ́ς tā̀s omphā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀμφή omphḗ | ὀμφᾱ́ omphā́ | ὀμφαί omphaí | ||||||||||
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References
- “ὀμφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀμφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀμφή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀμφή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀμφή 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- oracle idem, page 577.
- prophetic idem, page 653.
- voice idem, page 955.