ὀσμύλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄσμῠλος (ósmulos)

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 • (osmúlē) 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 osmúlē	τὼ ὀσμῠ́λᾱ tṑ osmúlā	αἱ ὀσμῠ́λαι hai osmúlai
Genitive	τῆς ὀσμῠ́λης tês osmúlēs	τοῖν ὀσμῠ́λαιν toîn osmúlain	τῶν ὀσμῠλῶν tôn osmulôn
Dative	τῇ ὀσμῠ́λῃ têi osmúlēi	τοῖν ὀσμῠ́λαιν toîn osmúlain	ταῖς ὀσμῠ́λαις taîs osmúlais
Accusative	τὴν ὀσμῠ́λην tḕn osmúlēn	τὼ ὀσμῠ́λᾱ tṑ osmúlā	τᾱ̀ς ὀσμῠ́λᾱς tā̀s osmúlās
Vocative	ὀσμῠ́λη osmúlē	ὀσμῠ́λᾱ osmúlā	ὀσμῠ́λαι osmúlai
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