οὐλαμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *wel-, the same root of εἰλέω (eiléō, “to press together”), with an o-grade root and suffixal -αμ-, which is found also in ποταμός (potamós) and πλόκαμος (plókamos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /uː.la.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /u.laˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /u.laˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /u.laˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /u.laˈmos/
Noun
οὐλᾰμός • (oulămós) m (genitive οὐλᾰμοῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ οὐλᾰμός ho oulămós |
τὼ οὐλᾰμώ tṑ oulămṓ |
οἱ οὐλᾰμοί hoi oulămoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ οὐλᾰμοῦ toû oulămoû |
τοῖν οὐλᾰμοῖν toîn oulămoîn |
τῶν οὐλᾰμῶν tôn oulămôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ οὐλᾰμῷ tōî oulămōî |
τοῖν οὐλᾰμοῖν toîn oulămoîn |
τοῖς οὐλᾰμοῖς toîs oulămoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν οὐλᾰμόν tòn oulămón |
τὼ οὐλᾰμώ tṑ oulămṓ |
τοὺς οὐλᾰμούς toùs oulămoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | οὐλᾰμέ oulămé |
οὐλᾰμώ oulămṓ |
οὐλᾰμοί oulămoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- οὐλαμηφόρος (oulamēphóros)
- οὐλαμοεργός (oulamoergós)
- οὐλαμώνυμος (oulamṓnumos)
References
- “οὐλαμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “οὐλαμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “οὐλαμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- οὐλαμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- οὐλαμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN