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Ancient Greek
- ὀδμή (odmḗ) (Earlier Greek)
Etymology
From ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”) + -μή (-mḗ).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oz.mɛ̌ː/ → /ozˈmi/ → /ozˈmi/
Noun
ὀσμή • (osmḗ) f (genitive ὀσμῆς); first declension
- smell, scent, odour
- stench, stink
- the sense of smell
Declension
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “ὀσμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀσμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀσμή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3744 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.
- aroma idem, page 40.
- fragrance idem, page 342.
- odour idem, page 569.
- perfume idem, page 607.
- rankness idem, page 671.
- savour idem, page 736.
- scent idem, page 738.
- smell idem, page 787.
- spice idem, page 801.
- stench idem, page 815.
- stink idem, page 818.