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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ókʷmə (“look, glance”), from the radical *ὀπ- (from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye”)) + -μα (-ma), with regressive assimilation (compare the Aeolic form, with progressive assimilation).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /óm.ma/ → /ˈom.ma/ → /ˈo.ma/
Noun
ὄμμᾰ • (ómma) n (genitive ὄμμᾰτος); third declension
- (chiefly poetic) eye
- the eye of heaven; i.e. the sun
- (generally) light
- (figuratively) that which brings light
- (figuratively) anything dear or precious, as the apple of an eye
- the face or human form
- an eye-hole in a helmet
Declension
Synonyms
- (eye): ὄσσε du (ósse), ὀφθαλμός sg (ophthalmós), ὤψ sg (ṓps)
- (face): ὤψ sg (ṓps)
Descendants
(through the diminutive ὀμμάτιον):
- Byzantine Greek: μάτιν (mátin)
References
Further reading
- “ὄμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄμμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄμμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὄμμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὄμμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3659 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.