ὀμφαλός
Second declension Noun; Masculine
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ὀμφαλός
ὀμφαλοῦ
Structure:
ὀμφαλ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- The navel.
- Anything central (like a navel):
- The centre or middle point.
- 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.
- ὁρῶ δ’ ἐπ’ ὀμφαλῷ μὲν ἄνδρα θεομυσῆ ἕδραν ἔχοντα προστρόπαιον, αἵματι στάζοντα χεῖρασ καὶ νεοσπαδὲσ ξίφοσ ἔχοντ’ ἐλαίασ θ’ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον, λήνει μεγίστῳ σωφρόνωσ ἐστεμμένον, ἀργῆτι μαλλῷ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 4:2)
- τοσόνδε μὲν γὰρ ἴσωσ καὶ ποιητὴσ ἂν εἴποι καὶ ψυχαγωγήσειεν, ὡσ ὁ μὲν λιμὴν ἐν ὀμφαλῷ τῆσ πόλεωσ, τὸ δὲ πέλαγοσ ἐν ὀφθαλμῷ, τοῖσ ἐπὶ θάτερα ἐσχάτοισ οὐχ ἧττον σύνοπτον ἢ τοῖσ προσοικοῦσι· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:10)
- ἔτι δὲ χωρῶν κάλλη παντοῖα καὶ ὡρῶν συμμετρίαν καὶ διαίτασ παντοίασ καὶ θέσιν τὴν πᾶσαν, ὡσ ἐν ὀμφαλῷ μὲν τῆσ πάσησ ἡγεμονίασ ἵδρυται, πολλοῖσ καὶ ἡμέροισ τοῖσ περὶ αὐτὴν ἔθνεσι καὶ γένεσιν ἐκ γῆσ καὶ θαλάττησ ἐστεφανωμένη· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:1)
- εἶτα συνιὼν κατ’ ὀλίγον ὑποκοιλαινούσησ εὐπρεπῶσ τῆσ ὑποχωρήσεωσ ἀνευρύνεται πάλιν ἠρέμα κατὰ χεῖλοσ, ὁμοίωσ ὀμφαλῷ ῥοιᾶσ τετμημένοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 219:2)
