ὄνος

See also: όνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Pre-Greek. Compare the discussion at Latin asinus.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.nos/ → /ˈo.nos/ → /ˈo.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.nos/

Noun

ὄνος • (ónos) m or f (genitive ὄνου); second declension

1. ass, donkey; jack, jackass (male); jenny, jennyass (female)
2. hake (fish)
3. woodlouse
4. wingless locust
5. windlass

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὄνος; τοῦ ὄνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄνος ho ónos	τὼ ὄνω tṑ ónō	οἱ ὄνοι hoi ónoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὄνου toû ónou	τοῖν ὄνοιν toîn ónoin	τῶν ὄνων tôn ónōn
Dative	τῷ ὄνῳ tōî ónōi	τοῖν ὄνοιν toîn ónoin	τοῖς ὄνοις toîs ónois
Accusative	τὸν ὄνον tòn ónon	τὼ ὄνω tṑ ónō	τοὺς ὄνους toùs ónous
Vocative	ὄνε óne	ὄνω ónō	ὄνοι ónoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (wingless locust): τρωξαλλίς (trōxallís)

Derived terms

• ἀπ’ ὄνου καταπεσεῖν (ap’ ónou katapeseîn, “one who gets into a scrape by his own clumsiness”)
• ὄναγρος (ónagros)
• ὀνῖτις (onîtis, “pot marjoram”)
• ὄνος ἄγω μυστήρια (ónos ágō mustḗria, “my part is to carry burdens”)
• ὄνος ὕεται (ónos húetai, “one who is unmoved by what is done or said”)
• ὄνου πόκαι (ónou pókai), ὄνου πόκες (ónou pókes, “pigeon's milk”)
• ὄνων ὑβριστότερος (ónōn hubristóteros, “of wanton behaviour”)
• ὄνων φάτνη (ónōn phátnē, “Beehive Cluster”)
• περὶ ὄνου σκιᾶς (perì ónou skiâs, “for a trifle”)

Descendants

• Greek: όνος m (ónos)

References

• “ὄνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὄνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὄνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3688 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ass idem, page 45.
  • donkey idem, page 247.
• ὄνος in Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN