ὁμαλός

The formation is like that of Latin similis (“similar”) and Old Irish samail (“likeness, similarity”), thus from Proto-Indo-European *sem-h₂-lo-, from *sem-. The ο- grade of the word is often thought to have been imported from ὁμός (homós, “similar”). Armenian ամոլ (amol, “harnessed pair of cows”) is probably unrelated.

ὁμᾰλός • (homalós) m (feminine ὁμᾰλή, neuter ὁμᾰλόν); first/second declension

1. (of a surface) even, level

   Antonym: τραχύς (trakhús)

2. (of a sediment) uniform in consistency
3. (of motion) even, equable
4. (of circumstances) equal, on a level
5. not remarkable, middling, average, ordinary

• Greek: ομαλός (omalós)

• “ὁμαλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὁμαλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὁμαλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN