ὀσμή

See also: οσμή

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀδμή (odmḗ) (Earlier Greek)

Etymology

From ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”) +‎ -μή (-mḗ).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oz.mɛ̌ː/ → /ozˈmi/ → /ozˈmi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oz.mɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ozˈme̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ozˈmi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ozˈmi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ozˈmi/

Noun

ὀσμή • (osmḗ) f (genitive ὀσμῆς); first declension

1. smell, scent, odour
2. stench, stink
3. the sense of smell

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὀσμή; τῆς ὀσμῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀσμή hē osmḗ	τὼ ὀσμᾱ́ tṑ osmā́	αἱ ὀσμαί hai osmaí
Genitive	τῆς ὀσμῆς tês osmês	τοῖν ὀσμαῖν toîn osmaîn	τῶν ὀσμῶν tôn osmôn
Dative	τῇ ὀσμῇ têi osmêi	τοῖν ὀσμαῖν toîn osmaîn	ταῖς ὀσμαῖς taîs osmaîs
Accusative	τὴν ὀσμήν tḕn osmḗn	τὼ ὀσμᾱ́ tṑ osmā́	τᾱ̀ς ὀσμᾱ́ς tā̀s osmā́s
Vocative	ὀσμή osmḗ	ὀσμᾱ́ osmā́	ὀσμαί osmaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: οσμή (osmí)

Further reading

• “ὀσμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀσμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀσμή 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
• G3744 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.
  • aroma idem, page 40.
  • fragrance idem, page 342.
  • odour idem, page 569.
  • perfume idem, page 607.
  • rankness idem, page 671.
  • savour idem, page 736.
  • scent idem, page 738.
  • smell idem, page 787.
  • spice idem, page 801.
  • stench idem, page 815.
  • stink idem, page 818.