ὦ

See also: ὥ, ᾧ, ω, Ω, -ῳ, and Appendix:Variations of "o"

ὦ U+1F66, ὦ GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI Composition: ω [U+03C9] + ◌̓ [U+0313] + ◌͂ [U+0342] ← ὥ [U+1F65] Greek Extended ὧ → [U+1F67]

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̂ː/ → /ˈo/ → /ˈo/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̂ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ō. Cognate with Latin ō̆.

Particle

ὦ • (ô)

1. O... (vocative particle, used before a noun in the vocative case when addressing someone or something)

   Alternative form: (uncommon) ὤ (ṓ)

Descendants

• → Old Church Slavonic: ѽ (ô)

Etymology 2

Expressive, influenced by the vocative particle when expressed in this manner.

Interjection

ὦ • (ô)

1. (uncommon) alternative form of ὤ (ṓ, expression of surprise, pain or joy)

Etymology 3

Verb

ὦ • (ô)

1. first-person singular present subjunctive active of εἰμί (eimí)

Alternative forms

• ἔω (éō) — Epic, Ionic

References

• “ὦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὦ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὦ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὦ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὦ”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5600 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible