ὦμος, ὁ: (see. entry near the end):—
the shoulder with the upper arm (ὠλένη being
the lower), ξίφεϊ κληῗδα παρ᾽ ὦμον πλῆξ᾽, ἀπὸ δ᾽ αὐχένος ὦμον ἐέργαθεν ἠδ᾽ ἀπὸ νώτου [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; κατ᾽ ὤμου δεῖρον [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὤμοις or ἐπ᾽ ὤμοις φέρειν, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὤμοισι τοῖσι ἐμοῖσι 'by the strength of mine
arms', [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀποστρέψαι τὸν ὦ. to dislocate
it, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
b)
the shoulder is sometimes more exactly specified as πρυμνότατος or πρυμνὸς ὦμος, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; sometimes opposed to χείρ (the arm), χεῖρες ὤμων. ἐπαΐσσονται [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; τοὺς ὤμους ἀποταμόντες σὺν τῇσι χερσί (arms) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) also of animals. as of a horse, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a lion, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a dog, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of crabs, [
Refs]; of birds, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; of ants, [
Refs]
3)
the shoulder, in a dress, ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων τῆς ἐπωμίδος [
LXX+4th c.BC+]
II)
metaphorically of
the parts below the top or
head of any thing, especially of
the fork of a vine (compare ὠμοχάραξ), [
Refs]; of the womb, Heroph. cited in [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]. (Cf. Latin
umerus (from
*omesos), Gothic
ams (stem
amsa-), Sanskrit
áṃsas, also
Aeolic dialect ἐπ-ομμάδιος, and (non-Greek) ἀμέσω [
Refs 5th c.AD+]