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

  • ὃσ δ’ αὖτ’ ἐν προμάχοισι πεσὼν φίλον ὤλεσε θυμὸν ἄστυ τε καὶ λαοὺσ καὶ πατέρ’ εὐκλεΐσασ, πολλὰ διὰ στέρνοιο καὶ ἀσπίδοσ ὀμφαλοέσσησ καὶ διὰ θώρηκοσ πρόσθεν ἐληλάμενοσ, τὸν δ’ ὀλοφύρονται μὲν ὁμῶσ νέοι ἠδὲ γέροντεσ, ἀργαλέῳ δὲ πόθῳ πᾶσα κέκηδε πόλισ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 166)
  • ἀμφὶ δέ μιν σφυρὰ τύπτε καὶ αὐχένα δέρμα κελαινὸν ἄντυξ ἣ πυμάτη θέεν ἀσπίδοσ ὀμφαλοέσσησ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 6 16:2)
  • τὸν δ’ ἕλκοντ’ ἀν’ ὅμιλον ὑπ’ ἀσπίδοσ ὀμφαλοέσσησ οὔτησε ξυστῷ χαλκήρεϊ, λῦσε δὲ γυῖα· (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 22:6)
  • Χερσιδάμαντα δ’ ἔπειτα καθ’ ἵππων ἀί̈ξαντα δουρὶ κατὰ πρότμησιν ὑπ’ ἀσπίδοσ ὀμφαλοέσσησ νύξεν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 42:4)
  • ὣσ εἰπὼν Σώκοιο δαί̈φρονοσ ὄβριμον ἔγχοσ ἔξω τε χροὸσ ἕλκε καὶ ἀσπίδοσ ὀμφαλοέσσησ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 46:1)

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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