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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

  • εἰ δέ κεν ἀσπίδα μὲν καταθείομαι ὀμφαλόεσσαν καὶ κόρυθα βριαρήν, δόρυ δὲ πρὸσ τεῖχοσ ἐρείσασ αὐτὸσ ἰὼν Ἀχιλῆοσ ἀμύμονοσ ἀντίοσ ἔλθω καί οἱ ὑπόσχωμαι Ἑλένην καὶ κτήμαθ’ ἅμ’ αὐτῇ, πάντα μάλ’ ὅσσά τ’ Ἀλέξανδροσ κοίλῃσ ἐνὶ νηυσὶν ἠγάγετο Τροίηνδ’, ἥ τ’ ἔπλετο νείκεοσ ἀρχή, δωσέμεν Ἀτρεί̈δῃσιν ἄγειν, ἅμα δ’ ἀμφὶσ Ἀχαιοῖσ ἄλλ’ ἀποδάσσεσθαι ὅσα τε πτόλισ ἥδε κέκευθε· (Homer, Iliad, Book 22 10:1)

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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