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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Compare μομφή (momphḗ, “reproof, blame”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ̂ː.mos/ → /ˈmo.mos/ → /ˈmo.mos/
Noun
μῶμος • (mômos) m (genitive μώμου); second declension
- blame, ridicule, disgrace
Inflection
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Further reading
- “μῶμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μῶμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μῶμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μῶμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μῶμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μῶμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3470 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- LSJ 8th edition