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:
Inflection
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
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
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