ὄγκος

From Proto-Hellenic *ónkos (“bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ónkos (“bend, hook”). Cognates include Latin uncus^[1] and Sanskrit अङ्क (aṅká).

ὄγκος • (ónkos) m (genitive ὄγκου); second declension

1. bend, curve, angle
2. barb, grapple, hook

Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₁onḱos (“burden”), which may be an o-grade Schwebeablaut nominal formation from *h₁neḱ- (“to take away”) (though such a Schwebeablaut would be rather strange).^[2] Under this derivation, often compared with Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hánćas (“share, part, portion”).^[3]

It has also been claimed that all attestations can be understood from a meaning "swelling", from earlier "curvature", and are thus ultimately identical to the "bend, hook" sense of Etymology 1.^[2]

Compare with the semantics of Latin mōlēs.

ὄγκος • (ónkos) m (genitive ὄγκου); second declension

1. bulk, volume, mass, heap, weight
2. tumor
3. molestation
4. dignity, importance, pride
5. particle, atom

• ὀγκηρός (onkērós)

• English: onco-
• Greek: όγκος (ógkos)
• Portuguese: onco-
• Spanish: onco-

• “ὄγκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄγκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄγκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄγκος 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
• ὄγκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3591 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • arrogance idem, page 41.
  • bigness idem, page 78.
  • boastfulness idem, page 87.
  • bulk idem, page 103.
  • bulkiness idem, page 103.
  • conceit idem, page 154.
  • consequence idem, page 162.
  • contempt idem, page 167.
  • contemptuousness idem, page 167.
  • dignity idem, page 224.
  • dimension idem, page 225.
  • disdainfulness idem, page 232.
  • elation idem, page 265.
  • girth idem, page 359.
  • grandiloquence idem, page 369.
  • greatness idem, page 372.
  • haughtiness idem, page 388.
  • hugeness idem, page 409.
  • immensity idem, page 418.
  • imperiousness idem, page 420.
  • importance idem, page 422.
  • inflation idem, page 438.
  • largeness idem, page 477.
  • loftiness idem, page 497.
  • magniloquence idem, page 507.
  • mass idem, page 516.
  • ostentation idem, page 580.
  • pretension idem, page 638.
  • pride idem, page 640.
  • protuberance idem, page 653.
  • scorn idem, page 740.
  • size idem, page 780.
  • superciliousness idem, page 838.
  • triumph idem, page 896.
  • turgidity idem, page 901.
  • unwieldiness idem, page 937.
  • vainglory idem, page 942.
  • vanity idem, page 943.
  • vastness idem, page 945.
  • volume idem, page 956.
  • weight idem, page 972.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 316
• ὄγκος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011