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ὄμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄμμα ὄμματος

Structure: ὀμματ (Stem)

Etym.: Root found in w)=mmai, perf. pass. of o(ra/w

Sense

  1. the eye, straight, by his eyes or expression, sight, one's eyes, eye-sight, the eye, eyes, sight
  2. that which one sees, a sight, vision
  3. the eye of heaven, the sun
  4. light, that which brings light, the light, anything dear or precious

Declension

Third 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

  • ὥσπερ ὄμφαξ ὀδοῦσι βλαβερὸν καὶ καπνὸσ ὄμμασιν, οὕτωσ παρανομία τοῖσ χρωμένοισ αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 10:27)
  • ὅτ’ Ἄργον ὄμμασιν βλέποντα πάντοθεν ἀκαμάτοισ μεγιστοάνασσα κέλευσε χρυσόπεπλοσ Ἥρα ἄκοιτον ἀύ̈πνον ἐόν‐ τα καλλικέραν δάμαλιν φυλάσσεν· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 19 2:1)
  • κἀκεῖνά τ’ εἶδον δορὶ πεσόνθ’ Ἑλληνικῷ τρίχασ τ’ ἐτμήθην τάσδε πρὸσ τύμβοισ νεκρῶν, καὶ τὸν φυτουργὸν Πρίαμον οὐκ ἄλλων πάρα κλύουσ’ ἔκλαυσα, τοῖσδε δ’ εἶδον ὄμμασιν αὐτὴ κατασφαγέντ’ ἐφ’ ἑρκείῳ πυρᾷ, πόλιν θ’ ἁλοῦσαν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic15)
  • σέβομαι Λατώ τ’ ἄνασσαν κίθαρίν τε ματέρ’ ὕμνων ἄρσενι βοᾷ δόκιμον, τᾷ φάοσ ἔσσυτο δαιμονίοισ <θεοῦ> ὄμμασιν ἁμετέρασ τε δι’ αἰφνιδίου ὀπόσ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, lyric10)
  • οὐ γὰρ φανερὸσ ὄμμασίν γ’ ἐμοῖσ. (Euripides, episode 3:33)

Synonyms

  1. that which one sees

  2. light

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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