ὅμιλος

See also: όμιλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally derived from ὁμός (homós, “same, joint”) +‎ ῑ̓́λη (ī́lē, “crowd”), the latter related to εἴλω (eílō, “to aggregate”). However, Beekes is skeptical and prefers to take the word as Pre-Greek, due to the presence of interchange -ιλ-ο-/-ιλλ-ο- in variants such as ὅμιλλος (hómillos), ὁμιλλει (homillei), as well as the word's phonetic structure and to some extent semantics resembling that of ἅμιλλα (hámilla, “competition”), which is probably also Pre-Greek.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.miː.los/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.mi.los/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.los/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.los/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mi.los/

Noun

ὅμῑλος • (hómīlos) m (genitive ὅμῑλου); second declension

crowd, throng
tumult (of battle)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ὅμῑλος; τοῦ ὁμῑ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὅμῑλος ho hómīlos	τὼ ὁμῑ́λω tṑ homī́lō	οἱ ὅμῑλοι hoi hómīloi
Genitive	τοῦ ὁμῑ́λου toû homī́lou	τοῖν ὁμῑ́λοιν toîn homī́loin	τῶν ὁμῑ́λων tôn homī́lōn
Dative	τῷ ὁμῑ́λῳ tôi homī́lōi	τοῖν ὁμῑ́λοιν toîn homī́loin	τοῖς ὁμῑ́λοις toîs homī́lois
Accusative	τὸν ὅμῑλον tòn hómīlon	τὼ ὁμῑ́λω tṑ homī́lō	τοὺς ὁμῑ́λους toùs homī́lous
Vocative	ὅμῑλε hómīle	ὁμῑ́λω homī́lō	ὅμῑλοι hómīloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ὁμῑλέω (homīléō)
ὁμῑλίᾱ (homīlíā)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὅμῑλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1076-7