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ὀμφαλός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀμφαλός ὀμφαλοῦ

Structure: ὀμφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. The navel.
  2. Anything central (like a navel):
  3. The centre or middle point.
  4. The centre of a plant, containing the seed vessel.

Declension

Second 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

  • ὀμφαλόσ σου κρατὴρ τορευτὸσ μὴ ὑστερούμενοσ κράμα. κοιλία σου θημωνία σίτου πεφραγμένη ἐν κρίνοισ. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 7:3)
  • ἕκαστον γοῦν αὐτῶν ἢν ἐξειλήσῃσ, δρᾶμα οὐ μικρὸν εὑρήσεισ Εὐριπίδου τινὸσ ἢ Σοφοκλέουσ, τὰ δ’ ἔξω πορφύρα εὐανθὴσ καὶ χρυσοῦσ ὁ ὀμφαλόσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 41:6)
  • ἵνα δὲ ἡ διχοτομία γίγνεται τοῦ μήκουσ, ὀμφαλὸσ ὀνομάζεται καὶ στόμα καὶ ἀραρόσ. (Arrian, chapter 8 9:1)
  • "ὁ γὰρ ὀμφαλὸσ; (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 3 9:2)
  • ὀμφαλὸσ θοίνασ καλεῖται παρὰ γ’ ἐμὶν καὶ τίν, σαφ’ οἶδα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 28 3:1)

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