ὀμφή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

By Grassmann's law from Proto-Hellenic *honkʷʰā́, from Proto-Indo-European *songʷʰ-éh₂, from *sengʷʰ- (to sing). Cognate with English song.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ὀμφή • (omphḗf (genitive ὀμφῆς); first declension

  1. (Epic) divine voice, oracle
  2. (in choral lyric) voice, speech, song

Inflection

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ὀμφή 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1081

Further reading

  • ὀμφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὀμφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ὀμφή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὀμφή in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὀμφή 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ὀμφή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011