Ὅμηρος

See also: όμηρος and Όμηρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Identical to ὅμηρος (hómēros, “hostage”), possibly an early nickname.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ὅμηρος • (Hómēros) m (genitive Ὁμήρου); second declension

Homer

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ὅμηρος; τοῦ Ὁμήρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ὅμηρος ho Hómēros
Genitive	τοῦ Ὁμήρου toû Homḗrou
Dative	τῷ Ὁμήρῳ tôi Homḗrōi
Accusative	τὸν Ὅμηρον tòn Hómēron
Vocative	Ὅμηρε Hómēre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ὁμήρειος (Homḗreios)
Ὁμηρικός (Homērikós)
Ὁμηρομαντεῖον (Homēromanteîon)

Descendants

from Ὅμηρος

Further reading

Ὅμηρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Ὅμηρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Ὅμηρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013
Homer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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