1. ὄγμος · ogmos — Beekes
The corpus record
ὄγμος
ogmos
furrow, swath, line of scythed grass or grain
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Where it lives
- Iliad 4 · 0.36/10k
What it meant
2. ὄγμος · ogmos — Chantraine
3. ὄγμος · ogmos — Frisk
4. ὠγμός · ōgmos — LSJ
a crying oh! Hsch., cf. A. Eu. 123, 126.
5. ὄγμος · ogmos — LSJ
furrow in ploughing, τοὶ δὲ στρέψασκον ἀνʼ ὄγμους Il. 18.546 ; πίονες ὄγμοι h.Cer. 455.
swathe in reaping, ὥς τʼ ἀμητῆρες ὄ. ἐλαύνωσιν Il. 11.68 ; δράγματα δʼ ἄλλα μετʼ ὄ. . . πῖπτον 18.552, cf. 557 ; ὄ. ἄγειν ὀρθόν Theoc. 10.2.
strip of cultivated land (written ὤγμος), PFay. 120.7 (ii A.D.), BGU 166.7 (ii A.D.).
metaph., ὅ τε πλήθει μέγας ὄ. [the moonʼs] vast orbit is accomplished, h.Hom. 32.11 ; of the sun, Arat. 749 ; of a hippopotamus, παλίσσυτον ὄ. ἐλαύνων Nic. Th. 571 ; ὄ. κακῶν . . γήραος, i.e. wrinkled old age, Archil. 116 ; ὄ. ὀδόντων row of teeth, APl. 16.265, etc.
In the wild
- ὄγμον · ogmon Iliad 11.68
- ὄγμους · ogmous Iliad 18.546
- ὄγμον · ogmon Iliad 18.552
- ὄγμου · ogmou Iliad 18.557
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὄγμος (scan p. 1096; entry #4426).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὄγμος (scan p. 790; entry #5755).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὄγμος (scan pp. 1319-1320; entry #4168).