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See also: όμοιος

ὅμοιος • ‎(hómoios) m ‎(feminine ὁμοία, neuter ὅμοιον); first/second declension

Like, resembling [+dative = someone, something], similar [+dative = to someone, something]; more rarely with genitive instead of dative; sometimes with accusative of the way in which someone or something is like another person or thing
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.218
  ὡς αἰεὶ τὸν ὁμοῖον ἄγει θεὸς ὡς τὸν ὁμοῖον.
  as always the god brings like to like. [Compare birds of a feather flock together.]
Shared, common, mutual
Suited to, appropriate for
Equal
The same

Declension of ὅμοιος; ὁμοίᾱ; ὅμοιον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ὅμοιος	ὁμοίᾱ	ὅμοιον	ὁμοίω	ὁμοίᾱ	ὁμοίω	ὅμοιοι	ὅμοιαι	ὅμοιᾰ
Genitive	ὁμοίου	ὁμοίᾱς	ὁμοίου	ὁμοίοιν	ὁμοίαιν	ὁμοίοιν	ὁμοίων	ὁμοίων	ὁμοίων
Dative	ὁμοίῳ	ὁμοίᾳ	ὁμοίῳ	ὁμοίοιν	ὁμοίαιν	ὁμοίοιν	ὁμοίοις	ὁμοίαις	ὁμοίοις
Accusative	ὅμοιον	ὁμοίᾱν	ὅμοιον	ὁμοίω	ὁμοίᾱ	ὁμοίω	ὁμοίους	ὁμοίᾱς	ὅμοιᾰ
Vocative	ὅμοιε	ὁμοίᾱ	ὅμοιον	ὁμοίω	ὁμοίᾱ	ὁμοίω	ὅμοιοι	ὅμοιαι	ὅμοιᾰ
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ὁμοίως			ὁμοιότερος			ὁμοιότᾰτος
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Declension of ὁμοῖος; ὁμοίᾱ; ὁμοῖον (Epic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ὁμοῖος	ὁμοίᾱ	ὁμοῖον	ὁμοίω	ὁμοίᾱ	ὁμοίω	ὁμοῖοι	ὅμοιαι	ὁμοῖᾰ
Genitive	ὁμοίου / ὁμοιοῖο / ὁμοίοιο / ὁμοιόο / ὁμοίοο	ὁμοίᾱς	ὁμοίου / ὁμοιοῖο / ὁμοίοιο / ὁμοιόο / ὁμοίοο	ὁμοίοιῐν	ὁμοίαι(ῐ)ν or ὁμοίῃῐν	ὁμοίοιῐν	ὁμοίων	ὁμοίων	ὁμοίων
Dative	ὁμοίῳ	ὁμοίᾳ	ὁμοίῳ	ὁμοίοιῐν	ὁμοίαι(ῐ)ν or ὁμοίῃῐν	ὁμοίοιῐν	ὁμοίοισῐ / ὁμοίοις	ὁμοίῃσῐ / ὁμοίῃς / ὁμοίαις	ὁμοίοισῐ / ὁμοίοις
Accusative	ὁμοῖον	ὁμοίᾱν	ὁμοῖον	ὁμοίω	ὁμοίᾱ	ὁμοίω	ὁμοίους	ὁμοίᾱς	ὁμοῖᾰ
Vocative	ὁμοῖε	ὁμοίᾱ	ὁμοῖον	ὁμοίω	ὁμοίᾱ	ὁμοίω	ὁμοῖοι	ὅμοιαι	ὁμοῖᾰ
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ὁμοίως			ὁμοιότερος			ὁμοιότᾰτος
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

ὁμοίως ‎(homoíōs, “in like manner”) (adverb from ὅμοιος ‎(hómoios, “like, similar”) +‎ -ως ‎(-ōs))
ὁμός ‎(homós, “same”)

ὅμοιος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ὅμοιος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
«ὅμοιος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
“G3664”, 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.
- commensurate idem, page 147.
- corresponding idem, page 175.