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
• 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