Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• δῶ ‎(dô) Epic

Noun

δῶμᾰ • ‎(dôma) n ‎(genitive δώμᾰτος); third declension

1. house
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.44
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.62
   1. chief room, hall
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.316
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.329
   2. (in the plural) a single house
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.259
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 607
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 332
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 301
   3. halls of the gods
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.13
        13.21
      1. the nether world
         • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.21
         • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 110
         • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 808
      2. (figuratively) temple
         • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.53
         • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 242
         • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.62
         • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 71
   4. (δῶμα Καδμεῖον) Thebes
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 29
   5. housetop
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Deuteronomy 22.8
      • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 24.17
      • Babr. 5.5
2. household, family
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1468
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1226

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Latin: dōma

References

• δῶμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δῶμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δῶμα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «δῶμα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «δῶμα» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «δῶμα» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• δῶμα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1430”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abode idem, page 2.
  • apartment idem, page 33.
  • chamber idem, page 123.
  • domicile idem, page 247.
  • dwelling idem, page 257.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • home idem, page 403.
  • house idem, page 408.
  • household idem, page 408.
  • room idem, page 721.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “δῶμα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 362-363