Ὅμηρος

See also: όμηρος and Όμηρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Identical to ὅμηρος (hómēros, “hostage”), possibly an early nickname.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hó.mɛː.ros/ → /ˈo.mi.ros/ → /ˈo.mi.ros/

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

Proper noun

Ὅμηρος • (Hómēros) m (genitive Ὁμήρου); second declension

1. Homer

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ὅμηρος; τοῦ Ὁμήρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὅμηρος ho Hómēros
Genitive	τοῦ Ὁμήρου toû Homḗrou
Dative	τῷ Ὁμήρῳ tôi Homḗrōi
Accusative	τὸν Ὅμηρον tòn Hómēron
Vocative	Ὅμηρε Hómēre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ὁμήρειος (Homḗreios)
• Ὁμηρικός (Homērikós)
• Ὁμηρομαντεῖον (Homēromanteîon)

 

Descendants

from Ὅμηρος

• → Albanian: Homeri
• → Alemannic German: Homer
• → Arabic: هُومَيرُوس (homērus)
• → Armenian: Հոմերոս (Homeros)
• → Asturian: Homero
• → Bashkir: Гомер (Gomer)
• → Basque: Homeros
• → Belarusian: Гамэ́р (Hamér)
• → Breton: Homeros
• → Bulgarian: Оми́р (Omír)
• → Catalan: Homer
• → Chinese: 荷馬／荷马 (Hémǎ)
• → Czech: Homér
• → Danish: Homer
• → Estonian: Homeros
• → Finnish: Homeros
• → French: Homère
• → West Frisian: Homêros
• → Friulian: Omêr
• → Galician: Homero
• → Georgian: ჰომეროსი (homerosi)
• → German: Homer
• Greek: Όμηρος (Ómiros)
• → Hebrew: הומרוס (homeros)
• → Hindi: होमर (homar)
• → Hungarian: Homérosz
• → Icelandic: Hómer
• → Irish: Hóiméar
• → Italian: Omero
• → Japanese: ホメロス (Homerosu)
• → Javanese: Homeros
• → Korean: 호메로스 (Homeroseu)
• → Latin: Homērus
• → Latvian: Homērs
• → Limburgish: Homeros
• → Lithuanian: Homeras
• → Luxembourgish: Homer
• → Macedonian: Хомер (Homer)
• → Malay: Homer
• → Marathi: होमर (homar)
• → Mongolian: Хомер (Xomer)
• → Norwegian: Homer
• → Occitan: Omèr
• → Pashto: هومر
• → Persian: هومر (humer)
• → Polish: Homer
• → Romanian: Homero
• → Russian: Гоме́р (Gomér)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Хомер, Homer
• → Slovak: Homér
• → Slovene: Homer
• → Swedish: Homeros
• → Tagalog: Homer
• → Thai: โฮเมอร์
• → Turkish: Homeros
• → Ukrainian: Гоме́р (Homér)
• → Vietnamese: Homer
• → Welsh: Homeros

Further reading

• “Ὅμηρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ὅμηρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ὅμηρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Ὅμηρος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013
• Homer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia