Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἀτὰρ ἀσπίδεσ ὀμφαλόεσσαι ἔπληντ’ ἀλλήλῃσι, πολὺσ δ’ ὀρυμαγδὸσ ὀρώρει. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 46:2)
  • ἀτὰρ ἀσπίδεσ ὀμφαλόεσσαι ἔπληντ’ ἀλλήλῃσι, πολὺσ δ’ ὀρυμαγδὸσ ὀρώρει. (Homer, Iliad, Book 8 8:2)
  • κόρυθεσ δ’ ἀμφ’ αὐο͂ν ἀύ̈τευν βαλλομένων μυλάκεσσι καὶ ἀσπίδεσ ὀμφαλόεσσαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 12 10:4)
  • τώ μοι δούρατά τ’ ἔστι καὶ ἀσπίδεσ ὀμφαλόεσσαι καὶ κόρυθεσ καὶ θώρηκεσ λαμπρὸν γανόωντεσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 26:4)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὅτε τοῖχον ἀνὴρ ἀράρῃ πυκινοῖσι λίθοισι δώματοσ ὑψηλοῖο βίασ ἀνέμων ἀλεείνων, ὣσ ἄραρον κόρυθέσ τε καὶ ἀσπίδεσ ὀμφαλόεσσαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 16:3)

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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