ὄσσομαι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *óťťomai, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ékʷ-ye/o- (“to see”); cognate with ὄψομαι (ópsomai, “I will see”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ós.so.mai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈos.so.mɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈos.so.mɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈos.so.me/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.so.me/
Verb
ὄσσομαι • (óssomai) (Epic)
- to see with the mind's eye
- to presage, have a foreboding of
- to bode, forebode (something evil)
Conjugation
Present: ὄσσομαι (Epic)
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| middle | indicative | ὄσσομαι | ὄσσεαι | ὄσσεται | ὄσσεσθον | ὄσσεσθον | ὀσσόμε(σ)θᾰ | ὄσσεσθε | ὄσσονται | ||||
| subjunctive | ὄσσωμαι | ὄσσηαι | ὄσσηται | ὄσσησθον | ὄσσησθον | ὀσσώμε(σ)θᾰ | ὄσσησθε | ὄσσωνται | |||||
| optative | ὀσσοίμην | ὄσσοιο | ὄσσοιτο | ὄσσοισθον | ὀσσοίσθην | ὀσσοίμε(σ)θᾰ | ὄσσοισθε | ὀσσοίᾰτο | |||||
| imperative | ὄσσεο | ὀσσέσθω | ὄσσεσθον | ὀσσέσθων | ὄσσεσθε | ὀσσέσθων | |||||||
| infinitive | ὄσσεσθαι | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | ὀσσόμενος | |||||||||||
| f | ὀσσομένη | ||||||||||||
| n | ὀσσόμενον | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Imperfect: ὀσσόμην (Epic)
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| middle | indicative | ὀσσόμην | ὄσσου | ὄσσετο | ὄσσεσθον | ὀσσέσθην | ὀσσόμε(σ)θᾰ | ὄσσεσθε | ὄσσοντο | ||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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The active form ὄσσω (óssō) is attested only once.
Derived terms
- προτιόσσομαι (protióssomai)
Further reading
- “ὄσσομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press