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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

  • ἀλλ’ ἀποσεισάμεναι νέφοσ ὄμβριον ἀθανάτασ ἰδέασ ἐπιδώμεθα τηλεσκόπῳ ὄμματι γαῖαν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, strophe 13)
  • ὦ μάκαρ Ἀρκαδίᾳ ποτὲ παρθένε Καλλιστοῖ, Διὸσ ἃ λεχέων ἐπέβασ τετραβάμοσι γυίοισ, ὡσ πολὺ ματρὸσ ἐμᾶσ ἔλαχεσ πλέον, ἁ μορφᾷ θηρῶν λαχνογυίων ‐ ὄμματι λάβρῷ σχῆμα λεαίνησ ‐ ἐξαλλάξασ’ ἄχθεα λύπησ· (Euripides, Helen, episode, lyric 2:1)
  • πάλιν κατάστηθ’ ἡσύχῳ μὲν ὄμματι, χρόᾳ δ’ ἀδήλῳ τῶν δεδραμένων πέρι· (Euripides, episode, iambic7)
  • οἱ δὲ παρόντεσ ἐνείρετε χεῖρασ ἅπαντεσ ἐσ σφαίρασ κυλίκων καὶ πρὶν ἐκεῖνον ἰδεῖν,6 ὄμματι βηματίσαισθε τὸν αἰθέρα τὸν κατὰ κλίνην,8 εἰσ ὅσον αἱ λάταγεσ χωρίον ἐκτατέαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 7 3:1)
  • "ὦ τὸν ἀγήρατον πόλον αἰθέροσ, Ἥλιε, τέμνων, , ἆρ’ εἶδεσ τοιόνδ’ ὄμματι πρόσθε πάθοσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5286)

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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