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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

  • καὶ προσέθετο ἔτι Γαὰλ τοῦ λαλῆσαι καὶ εἶπεν. ἰδοὺ λαὸσ καταβαίνων κατὰ θάλασσαν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐχόμενα ὀμφαλοῦ τῆσ γῆσ, καὶ ἀρχὴ ἑτέρα ἔρχεται δἰ ὁδοῦ Ἡλωνμαωνενίμ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:37)
  • ἰδοὺ δὴ ἡ ἰσχὺσ αὐτοῦ ἐπ̓ ὀσφύϊ, ἡ δὲ δύναμισ αὐτοῦ ἐπ̓ ὀμφαλοῦ γαστρόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 40:16)
  • ἐξαλλαγεὶσ γὰρ τοῦ παρεστῶτοσ πόνου, λαιὸν μὲν ἐσ τοὔπισθεν ἀμφέρει πόδα, πρόσω τὰ κοῖλα γαστρὸσ εὐλαβούμενοσ, προβὰσ δὲ κῶλον δεξιὸν δι’ ὀμφαλοῦ καθῆκεν ἔγχοσ σφονδύλοισ τ’ ἐνήρμοσεν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 4:3)
  • ἡ γοῦν ἀσπὶσ ἡ τοῦ αὐτοκράτοροσ ὅλῳ βιβλίῳ μόγισ ἐξηρμηνεύθη αὐτῷ, καὶ Γοργὼν ἐπὶ τοῦ ὀμφαλοῦ καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῆσ ἐκ κυανοῦ καὶ λευκοῦ καὶ μέλανοσ καὶ ζώνη ἰριοειδὴσ καὶ δράκοντεσ ἑλικηδὸν καὶ βοστρυχηδόν. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 194)
  • "Κλέαρχοσ δ’ ἐν πέμπτῳ Βίων σάγαριν φησι τὸν Μαριανδυνὸν ὑπὸ τρυφῆσ σιτεῖσθαι μὲν μέχρι γήρωσ ἐκ τοῦ τῆσ τιτθῆσ στόματοσ, ἵνα μὴ μασώμενοσ πονέσειεν,6 οὐ πώποτε δὲ τὴν χεῖρα κατωτέρω τοῦ ὀμφαλοῦ προενέγκασθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:161)

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