ὦμος

See also: ώμος, ωμός, and ὠμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃émōs. Cognates include Sanskrit अंस (áṃsa), Latin umerus, Old Armenian ուս (us), and Gothic 𐌰𐌼𐍃 (ams).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̂ː.mos/ → /ˈo.mos/ → /ˈo.mos/

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

Noun

ὦμος • (ômos) m (genitive ὤμου); second declension

1. the shoulder with the upper arm (also of animals, as of a horse)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὦμος; τοῦ ὤμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὦμος ho ômos	τὼ ὤμω tṑ ṓmō	οἱ ὦμοι hoi ômoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὤμου toû ṓmou	τοῖν ὤμοιν toîn ṓmoin	τῶν ὤμων tôn ṓmōn
Dative	τῷ ὤμῳ tôi ṓmōi	τοῖν ὤμοιν toîn ṓmoin	τοῖς ὤμοις toîs ṓmois
Accusative	τὸν ὦμον tòn ômon	τὼ ὤμω tṑ ṓmō	τοὺς ὤμους toùs ṓmous
Vocative	ὦμε ôme	ὤμω ṓmō	ὦμοι ômoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὦμος; ὤμου (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὦμος ômos	ὤμω ṓmō	ὦμοι ômoi
Genitive	ὤμου / ὠμοῖο / ὤμοιο / ὠμόο / ὤμοο ṓmou / ōmoîo / ṓmoio / ōmóo / ṓmoo	ὤμοιῐν ṓmoiin	ὤμων ṓmōn
Dative	ὤμῳ ṓmōi	ὤμοιῐν ṓmoiin	ὤμοισῐ / ὤμοισῐν / ὤμοις ṓmoisi(n) / ṓmois
Accusative	ὦμον ômon	ὤμω ṓmō	ὤμους ṓmous
Vocative	ὦμε ôme	ὤμω ṓmō	ὦμοι ômoi
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Descendants

• Greek: ώμος (ómos)

Further reading

• “ὦμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὦμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὦμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὦμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὦμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὦμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5606 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • shoulder idem, page 769.
• 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