ὁλμίσκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὅλμος (hólmos, “round, smooth stone”) + -ῐ́σκος (-ískos, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hol.mís.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)olˈmis.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /olˈmis.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /olˈmis.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /olˈmis.kos/
Noun
ὁλμῐ́σκος • (holmískos) m (genitive ὁλμῐ́σκου); second declension
- socket of the hinge of a door
- (anatomy) tooth socket
- Synonym: φᾰτνῐ́ον (phatníon)
- (geometry) frustum of a cone
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὁλμῐ́σκος; τοῦ ὁλμῐ́σκου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὁλμῐ́σκος ho holmískos | τὼ ὁλμῐ́σκω tṑ holmískō | οἱ ὁλμῐ́σκοι hoi holmískoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὁλμῐ́σκου toû holmískou | τοῖν ὁλμῐ́σκοιν toîn holmískoin | τῶν ὁλμῐ́σκων tôn holmískōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὁλμῐ́σκῳ tôi holmískōi | ὁλμῐ́σκοιν holmískoin | τοῖς ὁλμῐ́σκοις toîs holmískois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὁλμῐ́σκον tòn holmískon | ὁλμῐ́σκω holmískō | τοὺς ὁλμῐ́σκους toùs holmískous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὁλμῐ́σκε holmíske | ὁλμῐ́σκω holmískō | ὁλμῐ́σκοι holmískoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὁλμῐσκοειδής (holmiskoeidḗs)
Further reading
- ὁλμίσκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὁλμίσκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette