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The corpus record — Latin

omphalos

omphalos · m

the navel

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Where it lives

What it meant

omphălos — Lewis & Short

omphălos, i, m., = o)mfalo/s,

I the navel (pure Lat. umbilicus); transf. for the centre (in post-class. poetry), Aus. Idyll. 11, 60.

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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