homeros
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Rare form of Homer (“an ancient Greek poet”).
Example Sentences
- "We only need to recall the tin and amber trade in the western Mediterranean during the Hallstadt period, the early Iron Age. (Echoes of this trade may be heard in Homeros’s songs)."
- "What kind of a guy was Homeros, nobody knows whether he ever lived or died. Homeros was tall, with a long, beautiful beard, says Procles […] Homeros is like those villages: discovered, discovered and lost again."
- "“All the sons of Nestor gathered around the king,” Homeros sang. […] But Homeros was continuing, “Noble Telemachos, son of crafty Odysseus, stood and returned thanks.”"
- "Kolophon claimed to be the town where Homeros was born."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros).