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βωμός

bomos

step, stand (for chariots), base (of a statue)

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Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 9 · 18.66/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 11 · 13.26/10k
On Halonnesus 3 · 12.34/10k
Ion 10 · 10.93/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 9 · 10.08/10k
Agamemnon 8 · 9.86/10k
Heracles 5 · 6.39/10k
Josue (cod. Vat.) 8 · 6.01/10k
Eumenides 3 · 5.72/10k
Libation Bearers 3 · 5.58/10k
Trachiniae 4 · 5.5/10k
Peace 4 · 5.02/10k

Densest 12 of 81 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. βωμός · bōmos — Beekes

βωμός [m.] ‘step, stand (for chariots), base (of a statue)’, most frequently ‘altar’ (II.). «1Ὲ *g*oh,-mo- ‘stand’> *COMP βωμολόχος ‘one that waited about the altars to steal the meat, ribald’. *DER βωμίς ‘step’ (Hdt; on the word CEG 6), βωμίσκος technical term (Hero.); βῶμαξ:' ὁ μικρὸς βωμός, ὑποκοριστικῶς ‘small altar (hypocor.)’ (H.). βωμῖτις (sc. γῆ) ‘sacred land’ (Pergamon). βωμίστρια ‘priestess’ (Nic; on … — [Beekes, s.v. βωμός, p. 298]

2. βωμός · bōmos — Chantraine

βωμός : m. est attesté chez Hom. pour désigner un plateau sur lequel on plaçait ia caisse du’ char (ZI. 8,441) ou la base d’une statue (Od. 7,100). Mais depuis Homère et usuellement en ionien-attique, l'autel élevé, fondé sur une base, sur lequel étaient offerts les sacrifices (par opposition avec βόθρος, ἐναγιστήριον, etc., réservés aux sacrifices chtoniens). Le mot subsiste en grec moderne. Rares composés : … — [Chantraine, s.v. βωμός, p. 217]

3. βωμός · bōmos — Frisk

βωμός m. “Stufe, (Wagen)gestell’, bes. ‘Altar’ (seit IL). — Zahlreiche Ableitungen. Deminutiva: βωμίς "Staffel? (Hdt.), βωμίσκος techn. Terminus mit verschiedenen Spezialbedeutungen (Hero, Nikom. usw.), βωμίσκιον (Pap.), βωμισκάριον (Inschr.); βῶμαξ" ὁ μικρὸς βωμός, ὑποκοριστικῶς H. — βωμῖτις (sc. γῆ) "geweihtes Land’ (Pergamon); — βωμίστρια ‘Priesterin’ (Nik.; nach den Bildungen auf -ἰστρια zu -iZew, Chantraine … — [Frisk, s.v. βωμός, p. 311]

4. βωμός · bōmos — LSJ

raised platform, stand, base

raised platform, stand, for chariots, Il. 8.441; base of a statue, Od. 7.100: but,

2 altar with a base

mostly, altar with a base, ἱερὸς β. Il. 2.305, etc.; πρὸς βωμῷ σφαγείς A. Eu. 305; βωμὸς ἀρῆς φυγάσιν ῥῦμα Id. Supp. 84 (lyr.); βωμῶν ἀπείργειν τινά Id. Ch. 293; ἀγυιεὺς β. S. Fr. 370; of suppliants, ποτὶ βωμὸν ἵζεσθαι Od. 22.334; βωμοῖσι προσῆσθαι, προσπεσόντα βωμῷ καθῆσθαι, S. OT 16, OC 1158; βωμὸν ἵζειν E. Ion 1314: also in Prose, β. ἱδρύσασθαι Hdt. 3.142, cf. Pl. Prt. 322a; ἱζόμενοι ἐπὶ τὸν β. Hdt. 6.108; ἐπὶ βωμῶν καθέζεσθαι Lys. 2.11.

3 tomb, cairn

later, tomb, cairn, Epigr.Gr. 319.

title of poems by Dosiades and Besantinus, AP 15.26and 25, cf. Luc. Lex. 25.

5 altar-shaped cake

altar-shaped cake, IG 2.1651 B, C, Poll. 6.76.

Ζεὺς Βωμός, prob. a Syrian god, Hermes 37.118 (Syria).

7 central fire

central fire in the system of Philolaus, acc. to Placit. 2.7.7.

in pl., = ἔμβολοι, Hsch.

In the wild

βωμὸν · bōmon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 381–384
βωμοῦ · bōmou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1035–1038
βωμοῦ · bōmou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1277–1278
βωμὸν · bōmon Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1296–1298
βωμοῦ · bōmou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 206–210
βωμοῦ · bōmou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 231–238

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βωμός (scan p. 298; entry #1347).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βωμός (scan pp. 217-218; entry #1493).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βωμός (scan p. 311; entry #1215).

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