ommateum
Americannoun
PLURAL
ommateaOther Word Forms
- ommateal adjective
Etymology
Origin of ommateum
1880–85; < New Latin < Greek ommat- (stem of ómma ) eye + New Latin -eum noun suffix
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Edited by Robert M. West, the 966 poems in this two-volume set begin with the collection “Ommateum With Doxology,” which Ammons self-published in 1955, and end with “Bosh and Flapdoodle,” published posthumously in 2005.
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