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

 

• IPA^(key): /hól.mos/ → /ˈol.mos/ → /ˈol.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hól.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ol.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈol.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈol.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈol.mos/

Noun

ὅλμος • (hólmos) m (genitive ὅλμου); second declension

1. round, smooth stone
2. any cylindrical or bowl shaped body:
   1. mortar
   2. kneading trough
   3. hollow seat on which the Pythia prophesied
   4. drinking vessel
   5. (music) mouthpiece of a flute
   6. dial
   7. stone used as a weight

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὅλμος; τοῦ ὅλμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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, →ISBN