ὦτα (ota)

ὦτα is an Ancient Greek form of οὖς, meaning “ear”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 299 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.6.50: … ε καὶ λοιδορῶν αὐτόν φησιν αὑτοῦ μείζοσι κεχρῆσθαι παιδικοῖς. ἀλλὰ καὶ Ἀπολλωνίδῃ τινὶ ὀνειδίζει τετρῆσθαι τὰ ὦτα.

Lucian of Samosata, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit 29: … θου πώποτε προβεβηκὼς οὐδ’ ἄχρι Κεγχρεῶν ἀποδημήσας, οὔτι γε Συρίαν ἢ Ἀρμενίαν ἰδών, ὧδε ἤρξατο—μέμνημαι γάρ—“Ὦτα ὀφθαλμῶν ἀπιστότερα. γράφω τοίνυν ἃ εἶδον, οὐχ ἃ ἤκουσα.” καὶ οὕτως ἀκριβῶς ἅπαντα ἑωράκει ὥστε τοὺς δράκοντα …

All forms of οὖς (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.