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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

  • ‐ θέλγει δ’ ὄμματοσ ἕδραν ὕπνοσ· (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 15)
  • εἰ δὲ τέθριππά γ’ ἔθ’ ἁρ́ματα λεύσσων ἀελίου τάδε σώματα νεκρῶν ὄμματοσ αὐγαῖσ σαῖσ ἐπενώμασ ‐ τῶν μὲν ἐμῶν τεκέων φανερὸν κακόν· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 3:6)
  • ὥσπερ ἑνὸσ ὄμματοσ ἀνοιχθείσησ τῆσ ψυχῆσ. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 11:1)
  • "ἀντιλάμπει καὶ περίπλεωσ αὐτῆσ ὁ κύκλοσ, οἱ δ’ ὀξὺ καὶ σφοδρὸν ὁρῶντεσ ἐξακριβοῦσι μᾶλλον καὶ διαστέλλουσιν ἐκτυπούμενα τὰ εἴδη τοῦ προσώπου, καὶ τῆσ διαφορᾶσ ἅπτονται σαφέστερον ἔδει γάρ, οἶμαι, τοὐναντίον, εἴπερ ἡττωμένου πάθοσ ὄμματοσ ἐποίει τὴν φαντασίαν· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 25)
  • κόρη δ’ ὅτι καὶ τοῦ ὄμματοσ, ἐν ᾧ τὸ εἴδωλον ἀντιλάμπει τοῦ βλέποντοσ,, ὥσπερ τὸ ἡλίου φέγγοσ ἐνορᾶται τῇ σελήνῃ, κόρην προσαγορεύομεν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 27 2:4)

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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