ὁλμίσκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὅλμος (hólmos, “round, smooth stone”) +‎ -ῐ́σκος (-ískos, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hol.mís.kos/ → /olˈmis.kos/ → /olˈmis.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hol.mís.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)olˈmis.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /olˈmis.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /olˈmis.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /olˈmis.kos/

Noun

ὁλμῐ́σκος • (holmískos) m (genitive ὁλμῐ́σκου); second declension

1. socket of the hinge of a door
2. (anatomy) tooth socket

   Synonym: φᾰτνῐ́ον (phatníon)

3. (geometry) frustum of a cone

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὁλμῐ́σκος; τοῦ ὁλμῐ́σκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὁλμῐ́σκος ho holmískos	τὼ ὁλμῐ́σκω tṑ holmískō	οἱ ὁλμῐ́σκοι hoi holmískoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὁλμῐ́σκου toû holmískou	τοῖν ὁλμῐ́σκοιν toîn holmískoin	τῶν ὁλμῐ́σκων tôn holmískōn
Dative	τῷ ὁλμῐ́σκῳ tôi holmískōi	τοῖν ὁλμῐ́σκοιν toîn holmískoin	τοῖς ὁλμῐ́σκοις toîs holmískois
Accusative	τὸν ὁλμῐ́σκον tòn holmískon	τὼ ὁλμῐ́σκω tṑ holmískō	τοὺς ὁλμῐ́σκους toùs holmískous
Vocative	ὁλμῐ́σκε holmíske	ὁλμῐ́σκω holmískō	ὁλμῐ́σκοι holmískoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὁλμῐσκοειδής (holmiskoeidḗs)

Further reading

• “ὁλμίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὁλμίσκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette