ὤμιλλα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained, perhaps Pre-Greek in view of the suffix.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔ̌ː.mil.la/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.mil.la/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.mil.la/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.mil.la/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.mi.la/
Noun
ὤμῐλλᾰ • (ṓmilla) f (genitive ὠμῐ́λλης); first declension
- game in which nuts were thrown into a ring
- (figuratively) party, circle, sociable meeting
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ὤμῐλλᾰ; τῆς ὠμῐ́λλης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὤμῐλλᾰ hē ṓmilla | τὼ ὠμῐ́λλᾱ tṑ ōmíllā | αἱ ὤμῐλλαι hai ṓmillai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὠμῐ́λλης tês ōmíllēs | τοῖν ὠμῐ́λλαιν toîn ōmíllain | τῶν ὠμῐλλῶν tôn ōmillôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὠμῐ́λλῃ têi ōmíllēi | ὠμῐ́λλαιν ōmíllain | ταῖς ὠμῐ́λλαις taîs ōmíllais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὤμῐλλᾰν tḕn ṓmillan | ὠμῐ́λλᾱ ōmíllā | τᾱ̀ς ὠμῐ́λλᾱς tā̀s ōmíllās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὤμῐλλᾰ ṓmilla | ὠμῐ́λλᾱ ōmíllā | ὤμῐλλαι ṓmillai | ||||||||||
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References
- ὤμιλλα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὤμιλλα 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