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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[destructive]], [[sinister]], [[ominous]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: Also <b class="b3">ὀλοιός</b> (A 342, Χ 5, h. Ven. 224), <b class="b3">ὀλώιος</b> (Hes. Th. 591, Nonn.), <b class="b3">οὑλοός</b> (A. R.), voc. <b class="b3">ὀλέ</b> (Alcm. 55), <b class="b3">ὀλόεις</b> (S. Tr. 521, lyr.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">ὀλοό-φρων</b> <b class="b2">of ruinous intention, pondering on evil</b>, of <b class="b3">ὕδρος</b>, <b class="b3">λέων</b>, <b class="b3">σῦς κάπρος</b> (Il.), also of <b class="b3">Ἄτλας</b>, <b class="b3">Αἰήτης</b>, <b class="b3">Μίνως</b> (Od.); see Tièche Mus. Helv. 2, 69 f., Armstrong ClassRev. 63, 50; also <b class="b3">ὀλο-εργός</b>, <b class="b3">-εργής</b> <b class="b2">having a destructive effect</b> (Nic., Man.) with <b class="b3">ο</b> pushed out (cf. Schwyzer 252 f.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [777] <b class="b2">*h₃elh₁-</b> [[destroy]]<br />Etymology: To <b class="b3">ὀλέ-σαι</b>, <b class="b3">ὄλε-θρος</b> etc. (s. [[ὄλλυμι]]), so prob. through <b class="b3">*ὀλε-Ϝός</b> > <b class="b3">*ὀλο-Ϝός</b> (J. Schmidt KZ 32, 332f., 337, Schwyzer 472 w. lit.). -- The formal variants are all secondary: <b class="b3">ὀλοιός</b> with <b class="b3">οι</b> for <b class="b3">ο</b> (Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 168; cf. on <b class="b3">οἰέτεας</b>), <b class="b3">οὑλοός</b> with metr. lengthening and after <b class="b3">οὖλος</b>, <b class="b3">ὀλώϊος</b> after <b class="b3">ὀλοφώϊος</b>. <b class="b3">ὀλόεις</b> with poetical enlargement (Schw. 528 w. lit.), <b class="b3">ὀλέ</b> (voc.) from <b class="b3">*ὀλοέ</b> (or <b class="b3">*ὀλε</b>[F]<b class="b3">έ</b>?) with vowelloss; cf. <b class="b3">ὤ μέλε</b> and Hdn. 1, 154, 14.

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