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ὦμος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὦμος ὤμου

Structure: ὠμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the shoulder with the upper arm (also of animals, as of a horse)

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

  • καὶ ἐγενήθη ὥστε ἐπιστραφῆναι τῷ ὤμῳ αὐτοῦ ἀπελθεῖν ἀπὸ Σαμουήλ, μετέστρεψεν αὐτῷ ὁ Θεὸσ καρδίαν ἄλλην. καὶ ἦλθε πάντα τὰ σημεῖα ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 10:9)
  • καὶ προσέταξεν ὁ καθ̓ ἅπαν σώματι καὶ ψυχῇ πρωταγωνιστὴσ ὑπὲρ τῶν πολιτῶν, ὁ τὴν τῆσ ἡλικίασ εὔνοιαν εἰσ ὁμοεθνεῖσ διαφυλάξασ, τὴν τοῦ Νικάνοροσ κεφαλὴν ἀποτεμόντασ καὶ τὴν χεῖρα σὺν τῷ ὤμῳ φέρειν εἰσ Ἱεροσόλυμα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:30)
  • καὶ δώσω τὴν δόξαν Δαυὶδ αὐτῷ, καὶ ἄρξει, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἀντιλέγων. καὶ δώσω αὐτῷ τὴν κλεῖδα οἴκου Δαυὶδ ἐπὶ τῷ ὤμῳ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνοίξει, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἀποκλείων, καὶ κλείσει καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἀνοίγων. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 22:22)
  • ἥτ’ ἄνδρα καὶ ἴφθιμόν περ ἐόντα εὑεί ἄτερ δαλοῖο καὶ ὠμῷ γήραϊ δῶκεν. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 76:7)
  • "ἐγὼ παραβάλλομαι καὶ προκινδυνεύω" καλόν, ὦ Ζεῦ, κίνδυνον οὐ γάρ, ὡσ Πελοπίδασ ὑπὲρ τῆσ Θηβῶν ἐλευθερίασ ἢ ὡσ Ἁρμόδιοσ καὶ Ἀριστογείτων ὑπὲρ τῆσ Ἀθηναίων, προεκινδύνευσεν ὁ φιλόσοφοσ ὠμῷ πολύποδι διαμαχόμενοσ, ἵνα τὸν βίον ἀποθηριώσῃ; (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 6 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. the shoulder with the upper arm

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