ὀμφή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

By Grassmann's law from Proto-Hellenic *honkʷʰā́, from Proto-Indo-European *songʷʰ-éh₂, from *sengʷʰ-. Cognate with English song.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /om.pʰɛ̌ː/ → /omˈɸi/ → /omˈfi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /om.pʰɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /omˈpʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /omˈɸi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /omˈfi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /omˈfi/

Noun

ὀμφή • (omphḗ) f (genitive ὀμφῆς); first declension

1. (poetic) voice, oracle

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀμφή; τῆς ὀμφῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀμφή hē omphḗ	τὼ ὀμφᾱ́ tṑ omphā́	αἱ ὀμφαί hai omphaí
Genitive	τῆς ὀμφῆς tês omphês	τοῖν ὀμφαῖν toîn omphaîn	τῶν ὀμφῶν tôn omphôn
Dative	τῇ ὀμφῇ têi omphêi	τοῖν ὀμφαῖν toîn omphaîn	ταῖς ὀμφαῖς taîs omphaîs
Accusative	τὴν ὀμφήν tḕn omphḗn	τὼ ὀμφᾱ́ tṑ omphā́	τᾱ̀ς ὀμφᾱ́ς tā̀s omphā́s
Vocative	ὀμφή omphḗ	ὀμφᾱ́ omphā́	ὀμφαί omphaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “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.
  • oracle idem, page 577.
  • prophetic idem, page 653.
  • voice idem, page 955.