- ὄλλυμι
- to destroy
- 1. Act. = Lat. perdo,
2. to destroy, make an end of , [8th/7th c.BC, var. datesTragica Adespota:—;also of doing away with evil, ὤλεσεν νόσον [6th/5th c.BC]
3. to lose , θυμόν, ψυχήν, μένος, ἦτορ ὀλέσαι to lose life, [8th/7th c.BC]; πόνον ὀλέσαντες having lost their labour, [6th/5th c.BC]
4. Mid., = Lat. pereo,
5. to perish, come to an end , [8th/7th c.BC]; also c. acc. cogn., κακὸν οἶτον, κακὸν μόρον ὀλέσθαι to die by an evil death, [8th/7th c.BC]:—; ὄλοιο, ὄλοισθε may'st thou, may ye, perish! an imprecation, [var. datesTragica Adespota; so, ὀλοίμην, ὄλοιτο, ὄλοιντο, [Refs 5th c.BC]
6. to be ruined, undone , [8th/7th c.BC], attic
7. of things, to be lost , [8th/7th c.BC]
8. perf. ὄλωλα, in sense of Mid., to have perished, to be undone, ruined , [8th/7th c.BC, 6th/5th c.BC], etc.; τῶν ὀλωλότων of the dead , [6th/5th c.BC] (ML)