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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

  • ἅπαντεσ γὰρ ἀκριβῶσ ὅμοιοὶ εἰσιν τοῖσ καλλίστοισ τούτοισ βιβλίοισ, ὧν χρυσοῖ μὲν οἱ ὀμφαλοί, πορφυρᾶ δὲ ἔκτοσθεν ἡ διφθέρα, τὰ δὲ ἔνδον ἢ Θυέστησ ἐστὶν τῶν τέκνων ἑστιώμενοσ ἢ Οἰδίπουσ τῇ μητρὶ συνὼν ἢ Τηρεὺσ δύο ἀδελφὰσ ἅμα ὀπυίων. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 41:4)
  • τῶν γὰρ φιαλῶν οἱ ὀμφαλοὶ καὶ τῶν βαλανείων οἱ θόλοι παρόμοιοι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 1042)
  • "λέγονται ὅτι οἱ ὀμφαλοὶ αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν βαλανείων οἱ θόλοι ὅμοιοί εἰσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 104 1:4)
  • ἂν δ’ ἕλετ’ ἀμφιβρότην πολυδαίδαλον ἀσπίδα θοῦριν καλήν, ἣν πέρι μὲν κύκλοι δέκα χάλκεοι ἦσαν, ἐν δέ οἱ ὀμφαλοὶ ἦσαν ἐείκοσι κασσιτέροιο λευκοί, ἐν δὲ μέσοισιν ἐήν μέλανοσ κυάνοιο. (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 3:11)

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