ὀσμύλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄσμῠλος (ósmŭlos)

Etymology

From ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell, odour”), with a suffix found also in κοτύλη (kotúlē, “cup”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oz.mý.lɛː/ → /ozˈmy.li/ → /ozˈmi.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /oz.mý.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ozˈmy.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ozˈmy.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ozˈmy.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ozˈmi.li/

Noun

ὀσμῠ́λη • (osmŭ́lē) f (genitive ὀσμῠ́λης); first declension

1. curled octopus, a kind of octopus of the species Eledone cirrhosa

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὀσμῠ́λη; τῆς ὀσμῠ́λης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀσμῠ́λη hē osmŭ́lē	τὼ ὀσμῠ́λᾱ tṑ osmŭ́lā	αἱ ὀσμῠ́λαι hai osmŭ́lai
Genitive	τῆς ὀσμῠ́λης tês osmŭ́lēs	τοῖν ὀσμῠ́λαιν toîn osmŭ́lain	τῶν ὀσμῠλῶν tôn osmŭlôn
Dative	τῇ ὀσμῠ́λῃ têi osmŭ́lēi	τοῖν ὀσμῠ́λαιν toîn osmŭ́lain	ταῖς ὀσμῠ́λαις taîs osmŭ́lais
Accusative	τὴν ὀσμῠ́λην tḕn osmŭ́lēn	τὼ ὀσμῠ́λᾱ tṑ osmŭ́lā	τᾱ̀ς ὀσμῠ́λᾱς tā̀s osmŭ́lās
Vocative	ὀσμῠ́λη osmŭ́lē	ὀσμῠ́λᾱ osmŭ́lā	ὀσμῠ́λαι osmŭ́lai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ὀσμύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀσμύλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette