ὅλμος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὄλμος (ólmos)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind”). Further related to εἰλέω (eiléō, “to turn, roll”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hól.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ol.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈol.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈol.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈol.mos/
Noun
ὅλμος • (hólmos) m (genitive ὅλμου); second declension
- round, smooth stone
- any cylindrical or bowl shaped body:
- mortar
- kneading trough
- hollow seat on which the Pythia prophesied
- drinking vessel
- (music) mouthpiece of a flute
- dial
- stone used as a weight
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὅλμος; τοῦ ὅλμου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὅλμος ho hólmos | τὼ ὅλμω tṑ hólmō | οἱ ὅλμοι hoi hólmoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὅλμου toû hólmou | τοῖν ὅλμοιν toîn hólmoin | τῶν ὅλμων tôn hólmōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὅλμῳ tôi hólmōi | τοῖν ὅλμοιν toîn hólmoin | τοῖς ὅλμοις toîs hólmois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὅλμον tòn hólmon | τὼ ὅλμω tṑ hólmō | τοὺς ὅλμους toùs hólmous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὅλμε hólme | ὅλμω hólmō | ὅλμοι hólmoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὁλμειός (holmeiós)
- ὁλμίον (holmíon)
- ὁλμισκοειδής (holmiskoeidḗs)
- ὁλμίσκος (holmískos)
- ὁλμοειδῶς (holmoeidôs)
- ὁλμοκοπέω (holmokopéō)
- ὁλμοκόπος (holmokópos)
- ὁλμοποιός (holmopoiós)
- ὐφόλμιον (uphólmion)
Further reading
- ὅλμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὅλμος 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