Ὅμηρος

See also: όμηρος, ὅμηρος, and Όμηρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Apparently from ὅμηρος (hómēros, “hostage”); possibly an early nickname.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.mɛː.ros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.me̝.ros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.ros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.ros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.ros/

Proper noun

Ὅμηρος • (Hómēros) m (genitive Ὁμήρου); second declension

Homer

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ὅμηρος; τοῦ Ὁμήρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὅμηρος ho Hómēros
Genitive	τοῦ Ὁμήρου toû Homḗrou
Dative	τῷ Ὁμήρῳ tōî Homḗrōi
Accusative	τὸν Ὅμηρον tòn Hómēron
Vocative	Ὅμηρε Hómēre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ὁμήρειος (Homḗreios)
Ὁμηρῐκός (Homērĭkós)
Ὁμηρομᾰντεῖον (Homēromănteîon)

Descendants

Terms

→ Albanian: Homeri
→ Alemannic German: Homer
→ Arabic: هُومَيرُوس (homērus)
→ Armenian: Հոմերոս (Homeros)
→ Asturian: Homero
→ Bashkir: Гомер (Gomer)
→ Basque: Homeros
→ Belarusian: Гамэ́р (Hamér)
→ Breton: Homeros
→ Catalan: Homer
→ Chinese: 荷馬 / 荷马 (Hémǎ)
→ Czech: Homér
→ Danish: Homer
→ Estonian: Homeros
→ Finnish: Homeros
→ French: Homère
→ West Frisian: Homêros
→ Friulian: Omêr
→ Galician: Homero
→ Georgian: ჰომეროსი (homerosi)
→ German: Homer
Greek: Όμηρος (Ómiros)
- → Bulgarian: Омир (Omir)
→ Hebrew: הומרוס (homeros)
→ Hindi: होमर (homar)
→ Hungarian: Homérosz
→ Icelandic: Hómer
→ Irish: Hóiméar
→ Italian: Omero
→ Japanese: ホメロス (Homerosu)
→ Javanese: Homeros
→ Korean: 호메로스 (Homeroseu)
→ Latin: Homērus (see there for further descendants)
→ Latvian: Homērs
→ Limburgish: Homeros
→ Lithuanian: Homeras
→ Luxembourgish: Homer
→ Macedonian: Хомер (Homer)
→ Malay: Homer
→ Marathi: होमर (homar)
→ Mongolian: Хомер (Xomer)
→ Norwegian: Homer
→ Occitan: Omèr
→ Pashto: هومر
→ Persian: هومر (humer)
→ Polish: Homer
→ Romanian: Homero
→ Russian: Гоме́р (Gomér)
→ Serbo-Croatian: Хомер, Homer
→ Slovak: Homér
→ Slovene: Homer
→ Swedish: Homeros
→ Tagalog: Homer
→ Thai: โฮเมอร์
→ Turkish: Homeros
→ Ukrainian: Гоме́р (Homér)
→ Vietnamese: Homer
→ Welsh: Homeros

Further reading

“Ὅμηρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ὅμηρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Ὅμηρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Ὅμηρος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013
Homer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia