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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐνώμοτος (enṓmotos, “bound by oath”) + -ίᾱ (-íā), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ὄμνυμι (ómnumi, “I swear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.nɔː.mo.tí.aː/ → /e.no.moˈti.a/ → /e.no.moˈti.a/
Noun
ἐνωμοτίᾱ • (enōmotíā) f (genitive ἐνωμοτίᾱς); first declension
- A band of sworn soldiers
- A division of the Spartan army
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἐνωμοτία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐνωμοτία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐνωμοτία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐνωμοτία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἐνωμοτία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften