ἀνομάλω-σις

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `equal, level, smooth' (ι 327).

Other forms: ὁμαλής `id.' (Pl., X., Arist.; innovation, Schwyzer 513).

Compounds: As 2. member e.g. in ἀν-ώμαλος `unequal' (IA.; comp. length.).

Derivatives: ὁμαλ-ότης, - ητος f. `equality, even surface' (Pl., Arist.), - εύς m. `leveller' (who levels the bottom of the acker, pap. III^a; Mayser I: 3, 15). Denominative Verbs: 1. ὁμαλ-ίζω, also w. δι-, ἐξ- a.o., `to level, to balance' (X., Arist.) with ὁμαλ-ισμός m. `levelling' (LXX, S.E.), - ιξις f. `levelling' (Delph., Didyma, - ιστῆρες m. pl. `instruments for levelling' ( Gloss.), - ιστρον H.; hardky to λίστρον. 2. ὁμαλ-ύνω, also w. δι-, προ-, συν-, `to make equal, to make level' (Hp., Pl., Arist.; Fraenkel Denom. 36f.) with - υντικός `equational' (Gal.). 3. *ἀν-ομαλ-όω in ἀνομάλω-σις f. `equalisation' (Arist.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [902] * somh₂(e)lo- `level, smooth'

Etymology: Identical with Lat. similis `similar' (if - lis \< - los) in formation; in any case with o -ablaut from the l-stem in Lat. semel `once', Goth. simle `one time' = `once' etc.; beside it an n-stem in Germ., e.g. OWNo. saman `together etc.' (Benveniste Origines 43). Arm. amol `harnessed pair of cows' (Adontz Mél. Boisacq 1, 10) must remain far for its meaning, cf. Dumézil BSL 39, 241 f.

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