different between vomer vs omer

English

Etymology

From Latin v?mer (“ploughshare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vo?m?(?)/

Noun

vomer (plural vomers)

1. (anatomy) The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.

Translations

Anagrams

• mover

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?mer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.m??/

Noun

vomer m (plural vomers)

1. vomer, vomer bone

Further reading

• “vomer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• morve

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to move”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?o?.mer/, [?u?o?m?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vo.mer/, [?v??m?r]

Noun

v?mer m (genitive v?meris); third declension

1. ploughshare
2. (informal) penis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• v?meron?s?lis

Descendants

References

• vomer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vomer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vomer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• (small unit of volume): gomer (archaic)
• (sheaf of barley): Omer

Etymology 1

From Hebrew ???? \ ?????? ('ómer, “sheaf”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?(r)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?m??/

Noun

omer (plural omers)

1. (historical units of measure) A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     ...that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have bin more then might have well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals.

   • 1769, Bible (KJV), Exodus XVI:

     And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

2. A vessel of one omer.
3. (Judaism) The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.

Usage notes

In English, sometimes confounded with the much larger homer.

Synonyms

• (unit of volume): issaron

Meronyms

• (unit of volume): ephah, epha (10 omers); lethek, lethech (50 omers); homer, chomer, cor, kor (100 omers)

Etymology 2

Short for Sefirat Ha'Omer.

Noun

omer (uncountable)

1. (Judaism) The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.

References

• "omer, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• "H6016: `omer" in James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

Anagrams

• -more, Mero, More, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, mero, mero-, moer, more