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ὄμφαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄμφαξ ὄμφακος

Structure: ὀμφακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an unripe grape

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἦμοσ δὲ χλοερῷ κυανόπτεροσ ἠχέτα τέττιξ ὄζῳ ἐφεζόμενοσ θέροσ ἀνθρώποισιν ἀείδειν ἄρχεται, ᾧ τε πόσισ καὶ βρῶσισ θῆλυσ ἐέρση, καί τε πανημέριόσ τε καὶ ἠώιοσ χέει αὐδὴν ἴδει ἐν αἰνοτάτῳ, ὅτε τε χρόα Σείριοσ ἄζει, τῆμοσ δὴ κέγχροισι πέρι γλῶχεσ τελέθουσι τούσ τε θέρει σπείρουσιν, ὅτ’ ὄμφακεσ αἰόλλονται, οἱᾶ Διώνυσοσ δῶκ’ ἀνδράσι χάρμα καὶ ἄχθοσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 36:3)
  • νῦν ἀφύλακτοι ὄμφακεσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 2054)
  • ἄμφω μὲν θνατοῖσ εὐάκοοι, ἀλλὰ ποθ’ αὑτούσ ‐ αἰ ξύνᾷ παραθῇσ ἀχράδασ, ἐγκέκαφεν ναὶ μὰν ὡσαύτωσ τοὺσ βότρυασ, αἴτε πέλονται ὡρ́ιμοι, αἴτε χύδαν ὄμφακεσ, εὐτρέπικεν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 316 1:1)
  • πάροιθε δέ τ’ ὄμφακέσ εἰσιν ἄνθοσ ἀφιεῖσαι, ἕτεραι δ’ ὑποπερκάζουσιν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 7 10:10)

Synonyms

  1. an unripe grape

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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