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|etymtx=-ατος<br />Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[eye]]; also [[look]], [[sight]], [[face]], metaph [[sun]], [[light]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member a.o. in <b class="b3">ὀμματο-στερής</b> [[bereaving one of ones eyes]], [[blinding]] (A. in lyr.), [[bereaved of ones eyes]], [[blind]] (S., E. in lyr.); often as 2. member, e.g. <b class="b3">μελαν-όμματος</b> [[with black eyes]] (Pl., Arist.; cf. Sommer Nominalkomp. 17 f.).<br />Derivatives: Dimin. [[ὀμμάτιον]] n. (Arist., AP; = NGr. [[μάτι]]); further [[ὀμμάτειος]] [[belonging to the eyes]] (S. Fr. 801), [[ὀμματόω]] [[to provide eyes]], [[to illuminate]] (A., D.S.), <b class="b3">ἐξ-</b> ὄμμα [[to bereave someone of his eyes]] (E. Fr. 541), <b class="b2">to open someones eyes, to illuminate</b> (A., S., Ph. u.a.), <b class="b3">ἐν-</b> ὄμμα [[to provide eyes]] (Ph.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [775]<b class="b2">*h₃ekʷ-</b> [[see]]<br />Etymology: Beside the usual [[ὄμμα]] stands the rare [[ὄππατα]] (Sapph.) and [[ὄθματα]] (Call., Nic., Hymn. Is.), which like [[ὄμμα]] may have arisen first from <b class="b3">*ὄπμα</b> by progressive assimilation resp. through differenciation (Schwyzer 317 w. lit.); diff. on [[ὄππατα]] WP. 1, 170; s. also Fraenkel Phil. 96, 164 ([[ππ]] affective consonantsharpening for <b class="b3">*ὄπατα</b> with Specht KZ 62, 214); <b class="b3">῎ὄθματα</b> rather artificial reshaping with <b class="b3">-θμα</b> (Chantraine, Form. 175, R, Schmitt, Nominalbildung des Kallimachos 102. -- If a verbal noun in <b class="b3">-μα</b> from <b class="b3">ὀπ-</b> [[see]] (<b class="b3">ὄπ-ωπα</b>, [[ὄψομαι]]), [[ὄμμα]] must orig. have meant [[seeing]], [[glance]] (cf. Treu Von Homer zur Lyrik 66 w. lit.); but the word can also be an enlargement of the root noun in [[ὄσσε]] (Schwyzer 524, Porzig Satzinhalte 266). -- Cf. [[ὄπωπα]] and [[ὄσσε]] (not [[ὀφθαλμός]]).