Ὁμηρομάστιξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Compound of Ὅμηρος (Hómēros, “Homer”) + μᾰ́στῐξ (mắstĭx, “scourge”), literally “Homer's scourge”.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ho.mɛː.ro.más.tiks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)o.me̝.roˈmas.tiks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.mi.roˈmas.tiks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.mi.roˈmas.tiks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.mi.roˈmas.tiks/
Proper noun
Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῐξ • (Homēromắstĭx) m (genitive Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑγος); third declension
- an epithet of Zoilus: a Thracian grammarian who was a censorious critic of Homer
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῐξ ho Homēromắstĭx | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑγος toû Homēromắstīgos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑγῐ tōî Homēromắstīgĭ | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑγᾰ tòn Homēromắstīgă | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῐξ Homēromắstĭx | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑγες (homēromắstīges, noun)
Descendants
- → Latin: Homēromastix
Further reading
- Ὁμηρομάστιξ, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “Ὁμηρομάστιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press