ὅμιλος

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See also: όμιλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally derived from ὁμός (homós, same, joint) +‎ ῑ̓́λη (ī́lē, crowd), the latter related to εἴλω (eílō, to aggregate). However, Beekes is skeptical and prefers to take the word as Pre-Greek, due to the presence of interchange -ιλ-ο-/-ιλλ-ο- in variants such as ὅμιλλος (hómillos), ὁμιλλει (homillei), as well as the word's phonetic structure and to some extent semantics resembling that of ἅμιλλα (hámilla, competition), which is probably also Pre-Greek.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ὅμῑλος (hómīlosm (genitive ὅμῑλου); second declension

  1. crowd, throng
  2. tumult (of battle)

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References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὅμῑλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1076-7

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