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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)
  • ὀμφαλόσ σου κρατὴρ τορευτὸσ μὴ ὑστερούμενοσ κράμα. κοιλία σου θημωνία σίτου πεφραγμένη ἐν κρίνοισ. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 7:3)
  • προνομεῦσαι προνομὴν καὶ σκῦλα σκυλεῦσαι αὐτῶν, τοῦ ἐπιστρέψαι χεῖράσ μου εἰσ τὴν ἠρημωμένην, ἣ κατῳκίσθη, καὶ ἐπ’ ἔθνοσ συνηγμένον ἀπὸ ἐθνῶν πολλῶν, πεποιηκότασ κτήσεισ, κατοικοῦντασ ἐπὶ τὸν ὀμφαλὸν τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 38:12)
  • τὸ αὐτὸ δὴ καὶ σὺ πάσχων οὐχ ὁρᾷσ, ὁπόταν τὸ μὲν βιβλίον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ ἔχῃσ πάγκαλον, πορφυρᾶν μὲν ἔχον τὴν διφθέραν, χρυσοῦν δὲ τὸν ὀμφαλόν, ἀναγιγνώσκῃσ δὲ αὐτὸ βαρβαρίζων καὶ καταισχύνων καὶ διαστρέφων, ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν πεπαιδευμένων καταγελώμενοσ, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν συνόντων σοι κολάκων ἐπαινούμενοσ, οἳ καὶ αὐτοὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἐπιστρεφόμενοι γελῶσι τὰ πολλά; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 7:6)
  • 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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