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| ὦ | U+1F66, ὦ
GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI |
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Cognate with Latin ō, from Proto-Indo-European *ō or onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
Interjection
ὦ • (ô)
- (usually ὤ) expresses surprise, joy, or pain: oh!; ah!
- (usually ὦ) Very commonly used before a noun in the vocative or nominative case when addressing someone or something: O...
References
- “ὦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὦ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὦ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὦ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὦ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5600 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Verb
ὦ • (ô)
- first-person singular present subjunctive active of εἰμί (eimí)