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Ancient Greek
Etymology
It could derive from *h₃nebʰ- (“navel”), but the semantic explanation as a navel-like knob is hardly convincing. Furnée connects ἀμφίας (amphías, “bad Sicilian wine”) and ἀμφής (amphḗs, “wine blossom”). The variation, as well as the suffix -αξ, would point to Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /óm.pʰaks/ → /ˈom.ɸaks/ → /ˈom.faks/
Noun
ὄμφᾰξ • (ómphax) f (genitive ὄμφᾰκος); third declension
- unripe grape, also of olives
- young girl, not yet ripe for marriage
- unripe hard breast of a young girl
- kind of gem, used for seals
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Further reading
- “ὄμφαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄμφαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄμφαξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄμφαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὄμφαξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN