ὄναρ

See also: όναρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃en-r (“dream”); cognate with Old Armenian անուրջ (anurǰ) and Albanian ëndërr.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

ὄναρ • (ónar) n (genitive —); third declension

1. dream

   Synonym: ὄνειρος (óneiros)

   Antonym: ὕπαρ (húpar)

Usage notes

This noun is only used in nominative and accusative singular; otherwise, it is replaced by ὄνειρος (óneiros).

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ὄναρ; — (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ ὄναρ tò ónar
Genitive	—
Dative	—
Accusative	τὸ ὄναρ tò ónar
Vocative	—
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: όναρ (ónar)

Further reading

• “ὄναρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄναρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄναρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄναρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὄναρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὄναρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3677 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.
  • asleep idem, page 44.
  • awake idem, page 56.
  • dream idem, page 251.
  • vision idem, page 954.
• “ὄναρ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011