πομπή

From πέμπω (pémpō, “to send”) +‎ -η (-ē).

πομπή • (pompḗ) f (genitive πομπῆς); first declension

1. an escort
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.171:

     αὐτὰρ ὁ βῆ Λυκίην δὲ θεῶν ὑπ' ἀμύμονι πομπῇ.

     autàr ho bê Lukíēn dè theôn hup’ amúmoni pompēî.

     He in turn went to Lycia under the blameless escort of the gods.

   1. a sending
2. a solemn procession
   1. pomp

• → Latin: pompa

• “πομπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πομπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πομπή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πομπή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πομπή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πομπή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cavalcade idem, page 119.
  • ceremony idem, page 122.
  • conduct idem, page 157.
  • cortege idem, page 176.
  • despatch idem, page 216.
  • escort idem, page 282.
  • guidance idem, page 378.
  • pageant idem, page 588.
  • procession idem, page 644.
  • sending idem, page 752.
  • show idem, page 770.
  • spectacle idem, page 800.
  • triumph idem, page 896.

From Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ).

πομπή • (pompí) f

1. procession (group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner)
2. (colloquial) disgrace

• Used usually in plural for disgrace.