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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

  • ἐπ̓ ὤμοισ ἂν περιθέμενοσ στέφανον ἀνεγίνωσκον, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 31:36)
  • νυνὶ δὲ ὄψεσθε ἐν Βαβυλῶνι θεοὺσ ἀργυροῦσ καὶ χρυσοῦσ καὶ ξυλίνουσ ἐπ’ ὤμοισ αἰρομένουσ, δεικνύντασ φόβον τοῖσ ἔθνεσιν. (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:4)
  • ἄνευ ποδῶν ἐπ’ ὤμοισ φέρονται ἐνδεικνύμενοι τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀτιμίαν τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ, αἰσχύνονταί τε καὶ οἱ θεραπεύοντεσ αὐτὰ (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:26)
  • ἐπὶ ταῖσ πλευραῖσ καὶ τοῖσ ὤμοισ ὑμῶν διωθεῖσθε καὶ τοῖσ κέρασιν ὑμῶν ἐκερατίζετε καὶ πᾶν τὸ ἐκλεῖπον ἐξεθλίβετε. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 34:21)
  • Ὦ πικρᾶσ τῆσ τότε ἡμέρασ καὶ οὐ πικρᾶσ, ὅτε ὁ πικρὸσ Ἑλλήνων τύραννοσ πῦρ φλέξασ λέβησιν ὠμοῖσ καὶ ζέουσι θυμοῖσ ἀγαγὼν ἐπὶ τὸν καταπέλτην καὶ πάσασ τὰσ βασάνουσ αὐτοῦ τοὺσ ἑπτὰ παῖδασ τῆσ Ἁβρααμίτιδος (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 18:20)

Synonyms

  1. the shoulder with the upper arm

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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