ὠσμός

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὦσις (ôsis), ὠθισμός (ōthismós), ὠστισμός (ōstismós)

Etymology

From ὠθέω (ōthéō, “to push”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔːz.mós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ozˈmos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ozˈmos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ozˈmos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ozˈmos/

Noun

ὠσμός • (ōsmós) m (genitive ὠσμοῦ); second declension

(Koine) thrusting, pushing

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ὠσμός; τοῦ ὠσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ ὠσμός ho ōsmós
Genitive	τοῦ ὠσμοῦ toû ōsmoû
Dative	τῷ ὠσμῷ tôi ōsmôi
Accusative	τὸν ὠσμόν tòn ōsmón
Vocative	ὠσμέ ōsmé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

→ English: osmo-
→ Italian: osmo-
→⇒ Czech: osmóza
→⇒ English: osmosis
→⇒ Finnish: osmoosi
→⇒ French: osmose
→⇒ German: Osmose
→⇒ Norwegian Bokmål: osmotisk
→⇒ Norwegian Nynorsk: osmotisk
→⇒ Polish: osmoza
→⇒ Romanian: osmoză
→⇒ Spanish: ósmosis
→⇒ Swedish: osmotisk

Further reading

ὠσμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“ὠσμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“ὠσμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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