ὁμιλία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὅμῑλος (hómīlos, “a crowd or gathering of people”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ho.miː.lí.aː/ → /o.miˈli.a/ → /o.miˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ho.miː.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)o.miˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.miˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.miˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.miˈli.a/

Noun

ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ • (homīlĭ́ā) f (genitive ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. intercourse, interaction, company
2. sexual intercourse
3. instruction, homily

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ hē homīlĭ́ā	τὼ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ tṑ homīlĭ́ā	αἱ ὁμῑλῐ́αι hai homīlĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱς tês homīlĭ́ās	τοῖν ὁμῑλῐ́αιν toîn homīlĭ́ain	τῶν ὁμῑλῐῶν tôn homīlĭôn
Dative	τῇ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾳ têi homīlĭ́āi	τοῖν ὁμῑλῐ́αιν toîn homīlĭ́ain	ταῖς ὁμῑλῐ́αις taîs homīlĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱν tḕn homīlĭ́ān	τὼ ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ tṑ homīlĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s homīlĭ́ās
Vocative	ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ homīlĭ́ā	ὁμῑλῐ́ᾱ homīlĭ́ā	ὁμῑλῐ́αι homīlĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: homīlia

References

• “ὁμιλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press