1. οἴμοι · oimoi — Beekes
οἴμοι [excl.] exclamation of pain (Thgn., trag.). +diCic, οἶκτος. — [Beekes, s.v. οἴμοι, p. 1108]
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οἴμοι
oimoi
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Where it lives
- Knights 15 · 16.89/10k
- Philoctetes 14 · 15.91/10k
- Trachiniae 11 · 15.14/10k
- Clouds 14 · 14.55/10k
- Trojan Women 10 · 14.13/10k
- Hecuba 10 · 13.96/10k
- Electra 12 · 13.82/10k
- Plutus 11 · 13.64/10k
- Antigone 10 · 13.64/10k
- Acharnians 9 · 12.67/10k
- Wasps 12 · 12.34/10k
- Birds 13 · 12.2/10k
Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. οἴμοι · oimoi — Chantraine
οἴμοι : exclamation de souffrance de douleur, parfois de surprise (Thgn., trag.), ete. Composé de οἴ et du datif de 1re personne μοι; a fourni un verbe dérivé du type de αἰάζω tiré de αἰαῖ, cf. Schwyzer, Gr. Gr. 1, 716 : οἰμώζω (Tyrt., ion.-att., etc.), aor. οἰμῶξαι (Hom., ion.-att., etc.) fut. οἰμώξομαι (att., ete.), τῷ (Plu., AP); « pousser des cris de douleur, se lamenter », etc., dit chez Hom. de guerriers … — [Chantraine, s.v. οἴμοι, p. 801]
3. οἴμοι · oimoi — LSJ
ah me ! woeʼs me !, oh !
ah me ! woeʼs me ! first in Thgn. and Trag. (v. infr.) (in Hom. always ὤ μοι) ; οἴμʼ ὡς τεθνήξεις Ar. Ach. 590 ; and Com., οἴμʼ ὡς ἥδομαι Id. Nu. 773 : mostly abs., or with a nom., οἴ. ἐγὼ σοῦ μέλεος cj. in S. Tr. 971 (lyr.) ; οἴ. δείλαιος Ar. Eq. 139 : ironical, οἴ., καταύδα oh ! denounce it, S. Ant. 86 : sts. c. gen. causae, οἴ. ἀναλκείης Thgn. 891 ; οἴ. φρενὸς σῆς E. Hipp. 1454 ; οἴ. ταλαίνης συμφορᾶς S. El. 1179 ; οἴμοι μοι Ar. Pax 257 (really οἰμοιμοῖ acc. to A.D. Adv. 177.3) :—the forms ᾤμ
In the wild
- οἴμοι · oimoi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1223–1225
- οἴμοι · oimoi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 875
- οἴμοι · oimoi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 876
- οἴμοι · oimoi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 434
- οἴμοι · oimoi Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 171)
- οἴμοι · oimoi Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 132)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. οἴμοι (scan p. 1108; entry #4463).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. οἴμοι (scan p. 801; entry #5813). Root candidates: *oimo-, *wei-.
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