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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὦμος ώ̓μω ῶ̓μοι
Genitive ώ̓μου ώ̓μοιν ώ̓μων
Dative ώ̓μῳ ώ̓μοιν ώ̓μοις
Accusative ῶ̓μον ώ̓μω ώ̓μους
Vocative ῶ̓με ώ̓μω ῶ̓μοι

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

  • αἱ τέσσαρεσ ὠμίαι ἐπὶ τῶν τεσσάρων γωνιῶν τῆσ μεχωνὼθ τῆσ μιᾶσ, ἐκ τῆσ μεχωνὼθ οἱ ὦμοι αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:20)
  • ἀδύνατοι δὲ εἰ μὴ εὐλόγησάν με, ἀπὸ δὲ κουρᾶσ ἀμνῶν μου ἐθερμάνθησαν οἱ ὦμοι αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 31:20)
  • Ὤμοι πόνων ἀρωγόν, ὦ τρίτου ποδὸσ μοῖραν λελογχὸσ βάκτρον, ἐξέρειδέ μου βάσιν τρέμουσαν καὶ κατίθυνον τρίβον, ἴχνοσ βέβαιον ὡσ ἐπιστήσω πέδῳ. (Lucian, 10)
  • ὤμοι ἐγὼ σέθεν, ὦ φιλία φιλία κεφαλά, τέκνον, ὤμοι. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, strophe 13)

Synonyms

  1. the shoulder with the upper arm

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