δῶμα

• δῶ (dô) — Epic

Reanalyzed as a -μᾰ-stem from Epic δῶ (dô), from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“home; house”).^[1] Compare δόμος (dómos), δεσπότης (despótēs).

δῶμᾰ • (dôma) n (genitive δώμᾰτος); third declension

1. house
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.44
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.62
   1. chief room, hall
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.316
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.329
   2. (in the plural) a single house
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.259
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 607
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 332
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 301
   3. halls of the gods
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.13
        13.21
      1. the nether world
         • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.21
         • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 110
         • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 808
      2. (figurative) temple
         • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.53
         • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 242
         • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.62
         • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 71
   4. (δῶμα Καδμεῖον) Thebes
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 29
   5. housetop
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Deuteronomy 22.8
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 24:17
      • Babr. 5.5
2. household, family
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1468
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1226

• →? Albanian: dhomë (“room, chamber”)
• → Latin: dōma (“house, dwelling; roof”)

• “δῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δῶμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δῶμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δῶμα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “δῶμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1430 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abode idem, page 2.
  • apartment idem, page 33.
  • chamber idem, page 123.
  • domicile idem, page 247.
  • dwelling idem, page 257.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • home idem, page 403.
  • house idem, page 408.
  • household idem, page 408.
  • room idem, page 721.