Ancient Greek

Adjective

ᾰ̓νώμᾰλος • ‎(anṓmalos) m, f ‎(neuter ᾰ̓νώμᾰλον); second declension

1. (literally and figuratively) uneven, irregular
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 625.d
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 58a
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.71
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 885a.15
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aër. 13
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 5.228b.16
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 4.772b.7
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 5.788a.1
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 5.238a.22
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 52e
2. (of conditions and fortune) precarious
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 684
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 773.b
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 6.7.34
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prognostics 3
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 7.29
   • Prisc. p.333.D
3. (of persons) inconsistent, capricious
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1454a.26
   • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Civil Wars 3.42
   • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Punic Wars 59
   • Phryn., Com. 20
   • Palatine Anthology 10.96
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 9.44
4. (grammar) of words which deviate from a general rule, anomalous
   • Diom. 1.327
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 291.17
   • Sch.Th., Oxy. 853v.18

Declension

Derived terms

• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλέω ‎(anōmaléō)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλής ‎(anōmalḗs)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλῐ́ᾱ ‎(anōmalíā)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλίζω ‎(anōmalízō)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλοκράς ‎(anōmalokrás)
• ᾰ̓νωμᾰλότης ‎(anōmalótēs)

Descendants

• → Latin: anōmalos, anōmalus
  • English: anomalous
  • Italian: anomalo
  • Portuguese: anómalo
  • Spanish: anómalo
• Greek: ανώμαλος ‎(anómalos)

References

• ἀνώμαλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀνώμαλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀνώμαλος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀνώμαλος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • irregular idem, page 459.
  • lumpy idem, page 504.
  • unequal idem, page 916.
  • uneven idem, page 916.