Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄππᾰ ‎(óppa) Aeolic

Noun

ὄμμᾰ • ‎(ómma) n ‎(genitive ὄμμᾰτος); third declension

1. (chiefly poetic) eye
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.11
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 45.c
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.26
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4.6
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Senses 50
   • Polystr., Herc. 346.81.V.
   • BGU 713.9
   • IG 42(1).121.121
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.217
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.492
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.63
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1385
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.30
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 528
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1371
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.121
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 241
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 462
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.37
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 81
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 272
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 931
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 887
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 760
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1064
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1117
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 469
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 102
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 379
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 210
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 988
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 15
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 216
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 604
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.11
   • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 1153
   • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 484
   • 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 743
   • Phryn.Trag. 21
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1455.a.23
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1386.a.34
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 533.d
   • 245 CE – 325 CE, Iamblichus, Protrepticus 21.κδ᾽
   1. the eye of heaven, i.e. the sun
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 285
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 194
      • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 428
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 110
   2. (generally) light
      1. (figuratively) that which brings light
         • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.56
         • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 169
         • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 203
      2. (figuratively) anything dear or precious, as the apple of an eye
         • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 1025
   3. the face or human form
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1004
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 903
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 253.e
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 140
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 527
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 977
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1261
   4. an eye-hole in a helmet
      • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 22.62

Declension

Synonyms

• (eye): ὄσσε du ‎(ósse), ὀφθαλμός sg ‎(ophthalmós), ὤψ sg ‎(ṓps)
• (face): ὤψ sg ‎(ṓps)

References

• ὄμμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄμμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὄμμα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὄμμα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὄμμα» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὄμμα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3659”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • countenance idem, page 177.
  • downcast idem, page 249.
  • eye idem, page 299.
  • face idem, page 299.
  • gaze idem, page 355.
  • glance idem, page 361.
  • look idem, page 498.
  • sight idem, page 774.
  • vision idem, page 954.