Ὅμηρος

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See also: όμηρος, and Όμηρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Identical to ὅμηρος (hómēros, “hostage”), possibly an early nickname.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.mɛː.ros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.me̝.ros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.ros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.ros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.ros/

Proper noun

Ὅμηρος • (Hómēros) m (genitive Ὁμήρου); second declension

Homer

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ὅμηρος; τοῦ Ὁμήρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὅμηρος ho Hómēros
Genitive	τοῦ Ὁμήρου toû Homḗrou
Dative	τῷ Ὁμήρῳ tôi Homḗrōi
Accusative	τὸν Ὅμηρον tòn Hómēron
Vocative	Ὅμηρε Hómēre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ὁμήρειος (Homḗreios)
Ὁμηρικός (Homērikós)
Ὁμηρομαντεῖον (Homēromanteîon)

Descendants

from Ὅμηρος

→ Albanian: Homeri
→ Alemannic German: Homer
→ Arabic: هُومَيرُوس (homērus)
→ Armenian: Հոմերոս (Homeros)
→ Asturian: Homero
→ Bashkir: Гомер (Gomer)
→ Basque: Homeros
→ Belarusian: Гамэ́р (Hamér)
→ Breton: Homeros
→ Bulgarian: Оми́р (Omír)
→ Catalan: Homer
→ Chinese: 荷馬／荷马 (Hémǎ)
→ Czech: Homér
→ Danish: Homer
→ Estonian: Homeros
→ Finnish: Homeros
→ French: Homère
→ West Frisian: Homêros
→ Friulian: Omêr
→ Galician: Homero
→ Georgian: ჰომეროსი (homerosi)
→ German: Homer
Greek: Όμηρος (Ómiros)
→ Hebrew: הומרוס (homeros)
→ Hindi: होमर (homar)
→ Hungarian: Homérosz
→ Icelandic: Hómer
→ Irish: Hóiméar
→ Italian: Omero
→ Japanese: ホメロス (Homerosu)
→ Javanese: Homeros
→ Korean: 호메로스 (Homeroseu)
→ Latin: Homērus
→ Latvian: Homērs
→ Limburgish: Homeros
→ Lithuanian: Homeras
→ Luxembourgish: Homer
→ Macedonian: Хомер (Homer)
→ Malay: Homer
→ Marathi: होमर (homar)
→ Mongolian: Хомер (Xomer)
→ Norwegian: Homer
→ Occitan: Omèr
→ Pashto: هومر
→ Persian: هومر (humer)
→ Polish: Homer
→ Romanian: Homero
→ Russian: Гоме́р (Gomér)
→ Serbo-Croatian: Хомер, Homer
→ Slovak: Homér
→ Slovene: Homer
→ Swedish: Homeros
→ Tagalog: Homer
→ Thai: โฮเมอร์
→ Turkish: Homeros
→ Ukrainian: Гоме́р (Homér)
→ Vietnamese: Homer
→ Welsh: Homeros

Further reading

“Ὅμηρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ὅμηρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Ὅμηρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
“Ὅμηρος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013
Homer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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