βωμός

From Proto-Hellenic *gʷōmós, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷoh₂mós, from *gʷeh₂- (“to step”) (whence ἔβην (ébēn)). Compare βῆμᾰ (bêmă, “step”).^[1]

βωμός • (bōmós) m (genitive βωμοῦ); second declension (Epic, Ionic, Attic)

1. raised platform, pedestal
2. altar

• Greek: βωμός (vomós)

• “βωμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βωμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βωμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βωμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βωμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βωμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • altar idem, page 25.

• IPA^(key): /voˈmos/

βωμός • (vomós) m (plural βωμοί)

1. (religion) altar
2. place of religious ceremony or sacrifice

• Αγία Τράπεζα f (Agía Trápeza, “high altar”)

• βωμός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language