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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ōmós, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emós, *h₂eh₃mós (“raw, bitter, sour”). Cognates include Sanskrit आम (āmá), Old Armenian հում (hum, “raw”), and Irish amh.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔː.mós/ → /oˈmos/ → /oˈmos/
Adjective
ὠμός • (ōmós) m (feminine ὠμή, neuter ὠμόν); first/second declension
- raw, crude, undressed
- (of flesh) raw, uncooked
- (figuratively) savage, fierce, cruel
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References
Further reading
- “ὠμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὠμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὠμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὠμός 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
- ὠμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- atrocious idem, page 49.
- barbarous idem, page 62.
- bitter idem, page 80.
- brutal idem, page 102.
- crude idem, page 187.
- cruel idem, page 187.
- devilish idem, page 220.
- fell idem, page 314.
- ferocious idem, page 316.
- fiendish idem, page 318.
- fierce idem, page 318.
- hard idem, page 385.
- heartless idem, page 392.
- raw idem, page 674.
- savage idem, page 735.
- sour idem, page 796.
- truculent idem, page 898.
- unripe idem, page 930.
- wild idem, page 979.