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

  • οἱ δ’ ὅτε δὴ σχεδὸν ἦσαν ἐπ’ ἀλλήλοισιν ἰόντεσ, σύν ῥ’ ἔβαλον ῥινούσ τε καὶ ἀσπίδασ ὀμφαλοέσσασ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode, dactyls3)
  • κλαύσει νὴ τὸν Διόνυσον οἰμωγὰσ ᾄδων, καὶ ταύτασ ὀμφαλοέσσασ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode, dactyls8)
  • τὼ δ’ ἄρ’ ἀναί̈ξαντ’ Ὀδυσεὺσ καὶ φαίδιμοσ υἱὸσ ἐσφόρεον κόρυθάσ τε καὶ ἀσπίδασ ὀμφαλοέσσασ ἔγχεά τ’ ὀξυόεντα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 7:3)

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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