Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἅμμος ‎(hámmos)

Noun

ἄμμος • ‎(ámmos) f ‎(genitive ἄμμου); second declension

1. sand
   • Plato, Phaedo 110.A

     σήραγγες δὲ καὶ ἄμμος καὶ πηλὸς ἀμήχανος καὶ βόρβοροί εἰσιν

2. sandy ground, a racecourse
   • Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.3.6

     ἐάν που κινδυνεύειν δέῃ, πότερον ἐπάγειν τοὺς πολεμίους ἐπὶ τὴν ἄμμον κελεύσεις

Inflection

References

• ἄμμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄμμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἄμμος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄμμος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G285”, 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.
  • sand idem, page 733.