ὄγμος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”), thus cognate with ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”) and Sanskrit अज्म (ájma, “course, passage”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /óŋ.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈoɡ.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈoɣ.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈoɣ.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈoɣ.mos/
Noun
ὄγμος • (ógmos) m (genitive ὄγμου); second declension
- furrow in ploughing
- swathe in reaping
- strip of cultivated land
- (astronomy) orbit of the moon and sun
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὄγμος; τοῦ ὄγμου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὄγμος ho ógmos | τὼ ὄγμω tṑ ógmō | οἱ ὄγμοι hoi ógmoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὄγμου toû ógmou | τοῖν ὄγμοιν toîn ógmoin | τῶν ὄγμων tôn ógmōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὄγμῳ tôi ógmōi | τοῖν ὄγμοιν toîn ógmoin | τοῖς ὄγμοις toîs ógmois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὄγμον tòn ógmon | τὼ ὄγμω tṑ ógmō | τοὺς ὄγμους toùs ógmous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄγμε ógme | ὄγμω ógmō | ὄγμοι ógmoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐπόγμιος (epógmios)
- ὀγμεύω (ogmeúō)
Further reading
- ὄγμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄγμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄγμος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄγμος 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