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ὠμά (oma)

ὠμά is an Ancient Greek form of ὠμός, meaning “raw; savage”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.34: … παρέσεσθαι· μηδὲ γὰρ πρῴην αὐτῷ χάριν ἐγνωκέναι. γυμνοῖς ποσὶ χιόνα ἐπάτει καὶ τἄλλα ὅσα ἄνω προείρηται· καὶ ὠμὰ δὲ κρέα ἐπεχείρησε φαγεῖν, ἀλλʼ οὐ διῴκησε. κατέλαβέ ποτε Δημοσθένην τὸν ῥήτορα ἐν πανδοκείῳ ἀριστῶντα. τοῦ δ …

Plutarch, De esu carnium I 1: … ν θανασίμων χυμοὺς· καὶ ἰχῶρας ἀπολαμβάνουσαν. εἷρπον μὲν ῥινοί, κρέα δʼ ἀμφʼ ὀβελοῖς ἐμεμύκει ὀπταλέα τε καὶ ὠμά, βοῶν δʼ ὣς γίγνετο φωνὴ τοῦτο πλάσμα καὶ μῦθός ἐστι, τὸ δέ γε δεῖπνον ἀληθῶς τερατῶδες, πεινῆν τινα τῶν μυκω …

Bacchylides, Epinicians 3.91: βροτῶν ἅμα σ[ώμα]τι φέγγος, ἀλλὰ

All forms of ὠμός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.