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ὀμφαλόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀμφαλόεις ὀμφαλόεσσα ὀμφαλόεν

Structure: ὀμφαλοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. having a navel or boss, with a central boss, with a knob on the top

Declension

First/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

  • ὣσ ἔφαθ’, οἳ δ’ ἄρα πατρὸσ ὑποδείσαντεσ ὁμοκλὴν ἐκ μὲν ἄμαξαν ἀείραν ἐύ̈τροχον ἡμιονείην καλὴν πρωτοπαγέα, πείρινθα δὲ δῆσαν ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ, κὰδ δ’ ἀπὸ πασσαλόφι ζυγὸν ᾕρεον ἡμιόνειον πύξινον ὀμφαλόεν εὖ οἰήκεσσιν ἀρηρόσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 24:1)

Synonyms

  1. having a navel or boss

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

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