ὠσμός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὦσις (ôsis), ὠθισμός (ōthismós), ὠστισμός (ōstismós)

Etymology

From ὠθέω (ōthéō, “to push”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔːz.mós/ → /ozˈmos/ → /ozˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔːz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ozˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ozˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ozˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ozˈmos/

Noun

ὠσμός • (ōsmós) m (genitive ὠσμοῦ); second declension

1. (Koine) thrusting, pushing

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ὠσμός; τοῦ ὠσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ ὠσμός ho ōsmós
Genitive	τοῦ ὠσμοῦ toû ōsmoû
Dative	τῷ ὠσμῷ tôi ōsmôi
Accusative	τὸν ὠσμόν tòn ōsmón
Vocative	ὠσμέ ōsmé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → English: osmo-
• → Italian: osmo-
• →⇒ Czech: osmóza
• →⇒ English: osmosis
• →⇒ Finnish: osmoosi
• →⇒ French: osmose
• →⇒ German: Osmose
• →⇒ Norwegian Bokmål: osmotisk
• →⇒ Norwegian Nynorsk: osmotisk
• →⇒ Polish: osmoza
• →⇒ Romanian: osmoză
• →⇒ Spanish: ósmosis
• →⇒ Swedish: osmotisk

Further reading

• ὠσμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ὠσμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ὠσμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press