μῶμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. The term has traditionally been compared to ἀμύμων (amúmōn, “blameless”), though Beekes rejects this proposal, arguing that the ablaut variation of ω ~ υ (ō ~ u) is impossible.^[1] The term has also been connected with Old Avestan 𐬨𐬄𐬥𐬀𐬭𐬋𐬌𐬱 (mąnarōiš).^[2]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɔ̂ː.mos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.mos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.mos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.mos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.mos/

Noun

μῶμος • (mômos) m (genitive μώμου); second declension

blame, ridicule, disgrace
- c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.86

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῶμος; τοῦ μώμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῶμος ho mômos	τὼ μώμω tṑ mṓmō	οἱ μῶμοι hoi mômoi
Genitive	τοῦ μώμου toû mṓmou	τοῖν μώμοιν toîn mṓmoin	τῶν μώμων tôn mṓmōn
Dative	τῷ μώμῳ tōî mṓmōi	τοῖν μώμοιν toîn mṓmoin	τοῖς μώμοις toîs mṓmois
Accusative	τὸν μῶμον tòn mômon	τὼ μώμω tṑ mṓmō	τοὺς μώμους toùs mṓmous
Vocative	μῶμε môme	μώμω mṓmō	μῶμοι mômoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

μωμάομαι (mōmáomai)

Descendants

→ Old Armenian: մոմոս (momos)

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μῶμος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 991
^ Skjaervo, P. O. (2002), “Praise and blame in the Avesta: the poet-sacrificer and his duties”, in Jerusalem studies in Arabic and Islam‎^[1], number 26, →ISSN, page 52

“μῶμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μῶμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“μῶμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
μῶμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
μῶμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“μῶμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3470 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cavil idem, page 120.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μῶμος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 991

[2] Skjaervo, P. O. (2002), “Praise and blame in the Avesta: the poet-sacrificer and his duties”, in Jerusalem studies in Arabic and Islam‎^[1], number 26, →ISSN, page 52

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