ὅμαδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is similar to ἄραδος (árados), κέλαδος (kélados) and χρόμαδος (khrómados). Usually connected with Sanskrit समद् (samad, “strife, battle”). The word could belong to ὁμάζω (homázō, “to growl”) and thus of onomatopoeic origin, although DELG rejects this comparison because of the semantics.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hó.ma.dos/ → /ˈo.ma.ðos/ → /ˈo.ma.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.ma.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.ma.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ma.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ma.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ma.ðos/

Noun

ὅμᾰδος • (hómados) m (genitive ὅμᾰ́δου); second declension

1. noise, din, especially of the voices of men
2. throng or mob of warriors
3. din of battle

   Synonym: κῠδοιμός (kudoimós)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὅμᾰδος; τοῦ ὁμᾰ́δου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὅμᾰδος ho hómados	τὼ ὁμᾰ́δω tṑ homádō	οἱ ὅμᾰδοι hoi hómadoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὁμᾰ́δου toû homádou	τοῖν ὁμᾰ́δοιν toîn homádoin	τῶν ὁμᾰ́δων tôn homádōn
Dative	τῷ ὁμᾰ́δῳ tôi homádōi	τοῖν ὁμᾰ́δοιν toîn homádoin	τοῖς ὁμᾰ́δοις toîs homádois
Accusative	τὸν ὅμᾰδον tòn hómadon	τὼ ὁμᾰ́δω tṑ homádō	τοὺς ὁμᾰ́δους toùs homádous
Vocative	ὅμᾰδε hómade	ὁμᾰ́δω homádō	ὅμᾰδοι hómadoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὁμαδεύω (homadeúō)
• ὁμαδέω (homadéō)
• ὁμαδίς (homadís)

 

Further reading

• “ὅμαδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὅμαδος 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