"ὄμμα" meaning in Ancient Greek

See ὄμμα in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /óm.ma/, /ˈom.ma/, /ˈo.ma/, /óm.ma/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈom.ma/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈom.ma/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈom.ma/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈo.ma/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From Proto-Hellenic *ókʷmə, from the radical *ὀπ- (from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-) + -μα (-ma), with regressive assimilation (compare the Aeolic form, with progressive assimilation). Etymology templates: {{root|grc|ine-pro|*h₃ekʷ-}}, {{inh|grc|grk-pro|*ókʷmə}} Proto-Hellenic *ókʷmə, {{lang|grc|*ὀπ-}} *ὀπ-, {{der|grc|ine-pro|*h₃ekʷ-}} Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-, {{af|grc|-μα}} -μα (-ma) Head templates: {{grc-noun|ὄμμᾰτος|n|third|head=ὄμμᾰ}} ὄμμᾰ • (ómma) n (genitive ὄμμᾰτος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ὄμμᾰ|ὄμμᾰτος|form=N}} Forms: ὄμμᾰ [canonical], ómma [romanization], ὄμμᾰτος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], τὸ ὄμμᾰ [nominative, singular], τὼ ὄμμᾰτε [dual, nominative], τᾰ̀ ὄμμᾰτᾰ [nominative, plural], τοῦ ὄμμᾰτος [genitive, singular], τοῖν ὀμμᾰ́τοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν ὀμμᾰ́των [genitive, plural], τῷ ὄμμᾰτῐ [dative, singular], τοῖν ὀμμᾰ́τοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς ὄμμᾰσῐ [dative, plural], ὄμμᾰσῐν [dative, plural], toîs ómmasi [dative, plural], toîs ómmasin [dative, plural], τὸ ὄμμᾰ [accusative, singular], τὼ ὄμμᾰτε [accusative, dual], τᾰ̀ ὄμμᾰτᾰ [accusative, plural], ὄμμᾰ [singular, vocative], ὄμμᾰτε [dual, vocative], ὄμμᾰτᾰ [plural, vocative]
  1. (chiefly poetic) eye
    the eye of heaven; i.e. the sun
    Tags: poetic Categories (topical): Sun
    Sense id: en-ὄμμα-grc-noun-uNNQXJYZ Disambiguation of Sun: 12 45 37 3 2 2 Categories (other): Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension: 10 21 24 13 22 10
  2. (chiefly poetic) eye
    (generally) light
    (figuratively) that which brings light
    Tags: figuratively, poetic Categories (topical): Light, Sun
    Sense id: en-ὄμμα-grc-noun-MaVZ9PSK Disambiguation of Light: 0 49 49 1 0 0 Disambiguation of Sun: 12 45 37 3 2 2 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek entries with topic categories using raw markup, Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μα, Ancient Greek terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 8 49 19 8 8 8 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with topic categories using raw markup: 8 47 20 8 8 8 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension: 10 21 24 13 22 10 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μα: 11 32 24 11 11 11 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 8 46 23 8 8 8 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 9 45 21 9 9 9
  3. (chiefly poetic) eye
    (generally) light
    (figuratively) anything dear or precious, as the apple of an eye
    Tags: figuratively, poetic Categories (topical): Light, Sun
    Sense id: en-ὄμμα-grc-noun-VdKD2BPv Disambiguation of Light: 0 49 49 1 0 0 Disambiguation of Sun: 12 45 37 3 2 2 Categories (other): Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension: 10 21 24 13 22 10
  4. (chiefly poetic) eye
    the face or human form
    Tags: poetic Categories (topical): Face Synonyms (face): ὤψ (ṓps) [singular]
    Sense id: en-ὄμμα-grc-noun-3nmEQK0z Disambiguation of Face: 4 27 15 46 4 4 Categories (other): Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension: 10 21 24 13 22 10 Disambiguation of 'face': 0 0 0 100 0 0
  5. (chiefly poetic) eye
    an eye-hole in a helmet
    Tags: poetic
    Sense id: en-ὄμμα-grc-noun-~HL4y3JY Categories (other): Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension: 10 21 24 13 22 10
  6. (chiefly poetic) eye Tags: poetic
    Sense id: en-ὄμμα-grc-noun-R8IVtfcO Categories (other): Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension: 10 21 24 13 22 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Armor Synonyms: ὄππᾰ (óppa) [Aeolic] Synonyms (eye): ὄσσε (ósse) [dual], ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmós) [singular], ὤψ (ṓps) [singular]
Disambiguation of Armor: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of 'eye': 17 17 17 17 17 17

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          "text": "371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Senses 50"
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        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.492"
        },
        {
          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.63"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1385"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.30"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 528"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1371"
        },
        {
          "text": "389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.121"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 241"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 462"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.37"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 81"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 272"
        },
        {
          "text": "416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 931"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 887"
        },
        {
          "text": "442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 760"
        },
        {
          "text": "425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1064"
        },
        {
          "text": "425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1117"
        },
        {
          "text": "405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 469"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 102"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 379"
        },
        {
          "text": "470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 210"
        },
        {
          "text": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 988"
        },
        {
          "text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 15"
        },
        {
          "text": "431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 216"
        },
        {
          "text": "472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 604"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.11"
        },
        {
          "text": "423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 1153"
        },
        {
          "text": "423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 484"
        },
        {
          "text": "407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 743"
        },
        {
          "text": "Phryn.Trag. 21"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1455a.23"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1386a.34"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 533d"
        },
        {
          "text": "c. 245 CE – c. 325 CE, Iamblichus Chalcidensis, Protrepticus 21.κδ᾽"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eye"
      ],
      "id": "en-ὄμμα-grc-noun-R8IVtfcO",
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        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) eye"
      ],
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        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/óm.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈom.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈo.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/óm.ma/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈom.ma/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈom.ma/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈom.ma/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈo.ma/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "17 17 17 17 17 17",
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      "sense": "eye",
      "tags": [
        "dual"
      ],
      "word": "ὄσσε"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 17 17 17 17 17",
      "roman": "ophthalmós",
      "sense": "eye",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "ὀφθαλμός"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "17 17 17 17 17 17",
      "roman": "ṓps",
      "sense": "eye",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "ὤψ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "óppa",
      "tags": [
        "Aeolic"
      ],
      "word": "ὄππᾰ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ὄμμα"
}
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    "Ancient Greek entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek neuter nouns",
    "Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek paroxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ekʷ-",
    "Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic",
    "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μα",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
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          "expansion": "Byzantine Greek: μάτιν (mátin)",
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    {
      "form": "ómma",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
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      "form": "ὄμμᾰτος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
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      "tags": [
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "τὸ ὄμμᾰ",
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "τὼ ὄμμᾰτε",
      "roman": "tṑ ómmate",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ ὄμμᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "tà ómmata",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ ὄμμᾰτος",
      "roman": "toû ómmatos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν ὀμμᾰ́τοιν",
      "roman": "toîn ommátoin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν ὀμμᾰ́των",
      "roman": "tôn ommátōn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ ὄμμᾰτῐ",
      "roman": "tôi ómmati",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν ὀμμᾰ́τοιν",
      "roman": "toîn ommátoin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς ὄμμᾰσῐ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὄμμᾰσῐν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs ómmasi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs ómmasin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸ ὄμμᾰ",
      "roman": "tò ómma",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ ὄμμᾰτε",
      "roman": "tṑ ómmate",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ ὄμμᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "tà ómmata",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὄμμᾰ",
      "roman": "ómma",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὄμμᾰτε",
      "roman": "ómmate",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὄμμᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "ómmata",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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        "head": "ὄμμᾰ"
      },
      "expansion": "ὄμμᾰ • (ómma) n (genitive ὄμμᾰτος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ὄμμᾰ",
        "2": "ὄμμᾰτος",
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  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek poetic terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 285"
        },
        {
          "text": "413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 194"
        },
        {
          "text": "472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 428"
        },
        {
          "text": "413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 110"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eye",
        "the eye of heaven; i.e. the sun"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye#English"
        ],
        [
          "heaven",
          "heaven#English"
        ],
        [
          "sun",
          "sun#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) eye",
        "the eye of heaven; i.e. the sun"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek poetic terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.56"
        },
        {
          "text": "472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 169"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 203"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eye",
        "light",
        "that which brings light"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye#English"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "generally",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) eye",
        "(generally) light",
        "(figuratively) that which brings light"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek poetic terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 1025"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eye",
        "light",
        "anything dear or precious, as the apple of an eye"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye#English"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light#English"
        ],
        [
          "dear",
          "dear#English"
        ],
        [
          "precious",
          "precious#English"
        ],
        [
          "apple of an eye",
          "apple of an eye#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "generally",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) eye",
        "(generally) light",
        "(figuratively) anything dear or precious, as the apple of an eye"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek poetic terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1004"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 903"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 253e"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 140"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 527"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 977"
        },
        {
          "text": "413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1261"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eye",
        "the face or human form"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye#English"
        ],
        [
          "face",
          "face#English"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) eye",
        "the face or human form"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek poetic terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 22.62"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eye",
        "an eye-hole in a helmet"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) eye",
        "an eye-hole in a helmet"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek poetic terms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.11"
        },
        {
          "text": "360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 45c"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.26"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4.6"
        },
        {
          "text": "371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Senses 50"
        },
        {
          "text": "Polystr., Herc. 346.81.V."
        },
        {
          "text": "BGU 713.9"
        },
        {
          "text": "IG 42(1).121.121"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.217"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.492"
        },
        {
          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.63"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1385"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.30"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 528"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1371"
        },
        {
          "text": "389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.121"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 241"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 462"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.37"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 81"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 272"
        },
        {
          "text": "416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 931"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 887"
        },
        {
          "text": "442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 760"
        },
        {
          "text": "425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1064"
        },
        {
          "text": "425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1117"
        },
        {
          "text": "405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 469"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 102"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 379"
        },
        {
          "text": "470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 210"
        },
        {
          "text": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 988"
        },
        {
          "text": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 15"
        },
        {
          "text": "431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 216"
        },
        {
          "text": "472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 604"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.11"
        },
        {
          "text": "423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 1153"
        },
        {
          "text": "423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 484"
        },
        {
          "text": "407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 743"
        },
        {
          "text": "Phryn.Trag. 21"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1455a.23"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1386a.34"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 533d"
        },
        {
          "text": "c. 245 CE – c. 325 CE, Iamblichus Chalcidensis, Protrepticus 21.κδ᾽"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eye"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) eye"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/óm.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈom.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈo.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/óm.ma/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈom.ma/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈom.ma/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈom.ma/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈo.ma/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "ósse",
      "sense": "eye",
      "tags": [
        "dual"
      ],
      "word": "ὄσσε"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ophthalmós",
      "sense": "eye",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "ὀφθαλμός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ṓps",
      "sense": "eye",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "ὤψ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ṓps",
      "sense": "face",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "ὤψ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "óppa",
      "tags": [
        "Aeolic"
      ],
      "word": "ὄππᾰ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ὄμμα"
}

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