ὁμαιχμία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ὁμός (homós, “joint”) +‎ αἰχμή (aikhmḗ, “war”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.mai̯kʰ.mí.aː/ → /o.mɛxˈmi.a/ → /o.mexˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.mai̯kʰ.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.mɛkʰˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.mɛxˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.mexˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.mexˈmi.a/

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Noun

ὁμαιχμίᾱ • (homaikhmíā) f (genitive ὁμαιχμίᾱς); first declension

1. defensive alliance, league
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.18

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὁμαιχμίᾱ; τῆς ὁμαιχμίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὁμαιχμίᾱ hē homaikhmíā	τὼ ὁμαιχμίᾱ tṑ homaikhmíā	αἱ ὁμαιχμίαι hai homaikhmíai
Genitive	τῆς ὁμαιχμίᾱς tês homaikhmíās	τοῖν ὁμαιχμίαιν toîn homaikhmíain	τῶν ὁμαιχμιῶν tôn homaikhmiôn
Dative	τῇ ὁμαιχμίᾳ têi homaikhmíāi	τοῖν ὁμαιχμίαιν toîn homaikhmíain	ταῖς ὁμαιχμίαις taîs homaikhmíais
Accusative	τὴν ὁμαιχμίᾱν tḕn homaikhmíān	τὼ ὁμαιχμίᾱ tṑ homaikhmíā	τᾱ̀ς ὁμαιχμίᾱς tā̀s homaikhmíās
Vocative	ὁμαιχμίᾱ homaikhmíā	ὁμαιχμίᾱ homaikhmíā	ὁμαιχμίαι homaikhmíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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