ὦ

See also: ὥ, ᾧ, ω, Ω, and -ῳ

ὦ U+1F66, ὦ GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI Composition: ω [U+03C9] + ◌̓ [U+0313] + ◌͂ [U+0342] ← ὥ [U+1F65] Greek Extended ὧ → [U+1F67]

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Cognate with Latin ō, from Proto-Indo-European *ō or onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̂ː/ → /o/ → /o/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔ̂ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o/

Interjection

ὦ • (ô)

1. (usually ὤ) expresses surprise, joy, or pain: oh!; ah!
2. (usually ὦ) Very commonly used before a noun in the vocative or nominative case when addressing someone or something: O...

Alternative forms

• ὤ (ṓ)

References

• “ὦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὦ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὦ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὦ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὦ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5600 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Verb

ὦ • (ô)

1. first-person singular present subjunctive active of εἰμί (eimí)

Alternative forms

• ἔω (éō) — Epic, Ionic