Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὁμόφωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμόφωνος ὁμόφωνον

Structure: ὁμοφων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fwnh/

Sense

  1. speaking the same language with
  2. of the same sound or tone, in unison with

Examples

  • καὶ οὗτοσ μὲν δὴ πάσῃ τῇ πόλει διηντλήθη ὁ πόλεμοσ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτῶν τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὁμοφώνων πρὸσ τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 51:1)
  • διὰ γὰρ τῶν ἐμπείρων τῆσ θείασ φύσεωσ ὡσπερεί τινων ὁμοφώνων τὰ χαριστήρια τοῖσ θεοῖσ φασι δεῖν προσφέρειν, καὶ διὰ τούτων οἰόνται δεῖν τἀγαθὰ αἰτεῖσθαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 31 4:2)
  • ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺσ διὰ τὴν ἀρετὴν τοῦ ζῴου δυσφορήσασ τὴν μὲν χώραν δενδροτομεῖν προσέταξε, διὰ δὲ τῶν ὁμοφώνων τοῖσ ἐγχωρίοισ κηρύττειν ὡσ ἂν μὴ τὸν ἵππον ἀποδῶσι, τήν τε χώραν εἰσ τέλοσ ὄψονται κατεφθαρμένην τούσ τ’ ἐνοικοῦντασ πανδημεὶ κατεσφαγμένουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 74 24:1)
  • "πάντων ὁμοφώνων ὄντων τῶν ἀνθρώπων πύργον ᾠκοδόμησάν τινεσ ὑψηλότατον ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀναβησόμενοι δι’ αὐτοῦ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 146:2)

Synonyms

  1. speaking the same language with

Related

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

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