μῶμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compare μομφή (momphḗ, “reproof, blame”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̂ː.mos/ → /ˈmo.mos/ → /ˈmo.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɔ̂ː.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.mos/

Noun

μῶμος • (mômos) m (genitive μώμου); second declension

1. blame, ridicule, disgrace
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.86

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῶμος; τοῦ μώμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῶμος ho mômos	τὼ μώμω tṑ mṓmō	οἱ μῶμοι hoi mômoi
Genitive	τοῦ μώμου toû mṓmou	τοῖν μώμοιν toîn mṓmoin	τῶν μώμων tôn mṓmōn
Dative	τῷ μώμῳ tôi mṓmōi	τοῖν μώμοιν toîn mṓmoin	τοῖς μώμοις toîs mṓmois
Accusative	τὸν μῶμον tòn mômon	τὼ μώμω tṑ mṓmō	τοὺς μώμους toùs mṓmous
Vocative	μῶμε môme	μώμω mṓmō	μῶμοι mômoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μωμάομαι (mōmáomai)

Further reading

• “μῶμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μῶμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μῶμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μῶμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μῶμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μῶμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3470 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cavil idem, page 120.
• LSJ 8th edition