ὦ
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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔ̂ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *ō. Cognate with Latin ō̆.
Particle
ὦ • (ô)
- O... (vocative particle, used before a noun in the vocative or nominative case when addressing someone or something)
- Alternative form: (uncommon) ὤ (ṓ)
Descendants
- → Old Church Slavonic: ѽ (ô)
Etymology 2
Expressive, influenced by the vocative particle when expressed in this manner.
Interjection
ὦ • (ô)
Etymology 3
Verb
ὦ • (ô)
- first-person singular present subjunctive active of εἰμί (eimí)
Alternative forms
References
- “ὦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὦ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὦ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὦ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὦ”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5600 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible