ὅμῑλος

ὅμῑλος

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `throng, band of warriors, crowd, turmoil of battle' (Il.);

Other forms: (Aeol. ὄμιλλος [EM], prob. hyperdial., s. below).

Compounds: As 2. member a.o. in ἐξ-όμιλος `standing out of the crowd, strange, uncommon' (S. in lyr.).

Derivatives: Usu. denomin. ὁμιλέω (Aeol. pres. ὀμίλλει Alc.), also w. prefix like καθ-, προσ-, ἐξ-, `to be together, to associate with (friendly or adversely), to keep company, to discourse on' (Il.) with ὁμιλ-ία, -ίη f. `being together, intercourse, association, speech, sermon' (IA.; formally from ὅμιλος, s. Schwyzer 469), -ημα n. `association' (Pl., E.), -ητής (συν- ὅμῑλος) m. `companion, adherant, student' (X., Luc.), f. -ήτρια (Philostr. VA), -ητικός `sociable, affable, conversable' (Isoc., Plu. ). -- Adv. ὁμιλᾰδόν `in bands' (Il.; -ηδόν Hes. Sc.), `together with' (A. R., Opp.); supposition on the origin by Haas Μνήμης χάριν 1, 143. -- Detail on ὅμιλος etc. in Trümpy Fachausdrücke 145 ff.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: As ὄμιλλος, ὀμίλλει can very well be hyperAeolic (Hamm Gramm. $ 73b 3 a. 158f), we must start from ὅμ-ῑλο-ς (: ὁμός etc.) with the rare ῑλο-suffix (στρόβιλος, πέδιλον a. o.; Chantraine Form. 249); from other languages we must esp. refer to the stemidentical and sense-cognate Skt. sam-īká- n. `battle', s. Hirt IF 31, 12 f. with a hypothesis on the origin of the ī (to -īno-, -īko-, -īto- etc. Meid IF 62, 260ff. a. 63, 14ff.). After H. here also Lat. mīles `soldier' from *sm-īlo- `turmoil of battle' (then only in ablaut deviating from ὅμιλος; diff. on mīles Kretschmer Glotta 31, 156 n. 6; s. also Szemerényi Arch. Linguist. 6, 41). A similar, but quite independent formation is ἅμιλλα (s. v.); (in my view Pre-Greek). -- Improbable on ὅμιλος Johansson IF 2, 34 n. (s. Bq, WP. 2, 491, W.-Hofmann s. mīles) and Adrados Emer. 17, 119ff. (ὁμ(ο)- and ἴλη: "whole of ἴλαι"; similar already Curtius). - I think that he word is Pre-Greek; suffixes with V̄C are frequent there; -ιλ-ο-\/-ιλλ-ο- can represent -il^y-o-.

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