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ὄναρ

onar

dream

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Where it lives

On the Public Fund 1 · 4.33/10k
Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
Matthew 6 · 3.35/10k
Theaetetus 6 · 2.67/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Apology 2 · 2.29/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Philebus 3 · 1.7/10k
Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
Anabasis 8 · 1.42/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ὄναρ · onar — Beekes

ὄναρ [n.] ‘dream’, especially ‘fortune-telling dream, vision’ (Il.), as an adverb ‘in a dream’ (trag,, Att.). 41Ὲ *h,en-r ‘dream’, *h,ner-io-> “ΝΑΙ Only nom. and acc.; further ὄνειρος [m,] ‘god of dreams, dream’ (Il.), -ov [n.]; other case forms are ae ὟΣ -ατι, -ατα, etc., ‘vision, phantom’ (Od.); thence the back-formation ὄνειαρ | 1 (Call, AP). Note Aeol. ὄνοιρος [m.] (Sapph.); Cret. dvaipov: ὄνειρον, ἄναρ’ ὄναρ … — [Beekes, s.v. ὄναρ, p. 1133]

2. ὄναρ · onar — Chantraine

ὄναρ : n. nom.-acc.; sous l'influence de ὄνειρος s'est créée une flexion complète, ὀνείρατος, etc., ὀνείρατα, etc. (Hom., ion.-att.). Sens : «rêve », surtout rêve trompeur, image apparue en rêve. L'emploi adverbial ὄναρ « en rêve » (trag., att.) semble ancien, Parallèlement existe un dérivé m. ὄνειρος où le sens animé est originellement sensible surtout au nom. : le Rêve personnifié (11. 2,6 sqq., 56 [ἃ côté de … — [Chantraine, s.v. ὄναρ, p. 819]

3. ὄναρ · onar — Frisk

ὄναρ Nom. Akk. n. “Traum’, bes. “"Trugtraum’, "Traumbild’ (vorw. ep. poet. seit Il.), als Adv. ‘im Traum’ (Trag., att.); ὄνειρος m. “TIraumgott, Traum’ (seit 1].), -ov n., Gen. ag. usw. ὀνείρ-ατος, -ατι, -ara usw. “Traumbild, -gestalt’ (vorw. ep. ion. poet. seit Od.); danach ὄνειαρ τι. (Rall., AP); äol. ὄνοιρος m. (Sapph.); kret. ἄναιρον" ὄνειρον, ävap' ὄναρ H. Mehrere Kompp., z.B. ὀνειρο-πόλος m. "Traumdeuter’ (Il. … — [Frisk, s.v. ὄναρ, p. 1365]

4. ὄναρ · onar — Frisk

ὄναρ ist nach Van Windekens Orbis 12 (1963) 482f. uralisch.(?) frisk, Griech. etym. Wörterbuch, Bd. III 11 102 ὅνε--- ὁπώρα — [Frisk, s.v. ὄναρ, p. 2287]

5. ὄνᾰρ · onar — LSJ

dream, vision in sleep, dream

dream, vision in sleep, opp. a waking vision, οὐκ ὄ., ἀλλʼ ὕπαρ ἐσθλόν Od. 19.547, cf. 20.90 ; ἡλίῳ δείκνυσι τοὔναρ S. El. 425 ; εἶδον ὄ. Ar. Eq. 1090 ; ἄκουε δὴ ὄ. ἀντὶ ὀνείρατος dream for dream, Pl. Tht. 201d ; ὥστε μηδὲ ὄ. ἰδεῖν, of profound sleep, Id. Ap. 40d : prov., τὸ ἐμόν γʼ ἐμοὶ λέγεις ὄ. ‘you are telling me what I know already’, Id. R. 563d, cf. Suid. s.v. ταὐτὸν πέπονθα (cf. ὄνειρος I, ὄνειαρ II).

prov. of anything fleeting or unreal, ὀλιγοχρόνιον . . ὥσπερ ὄ. Thgn. 1020 ; σε παρέρχεται ὡς ὄ. ἥβη Theoc. 27.8 ; πόθος δέ μοι ὡς ὄ. ἔπτα Bion 1.58 : in Prose, ἡ ἐμὴ [σοφία] . . , ὥσπερ ὄ. οὖσα Pl. Smp. 175e, cf. Men. 85c ; ὡς ὄ. ἐλευθερίας ὁρῶντας Plu. Thes. 32 ; and without ὡς, σκιᾶς ὄ. ἄνθρωπος Pi. P. 8.95 ; ὄ. ἡμερόφαντον ἀλαίνει, of an old man, A. Ag. 82 (anap.).

II in a dream, in sleep, in a dream, in my dreams, in a dream, in consequence of a dream

in Trag. and Att. freq. as Adv., in a dream, in sleep, ὄ. γὰρ ὑμᾶς νῦν Κλυταιμνήστρα καλῶ Id. Eu. 116 ; ὄ. διώκεις θῆρα ib. 131 ; ὄ. πνεύσαντα νυκτός S. Fr. 65 : freq. in Pl., ὄ. ἐπλουτήσαμεν Tht. 208b ; ὄ. ὀνείρατα διηγεῖσθαι ib. 158c, etc. ; also οὐδʼ ὄ. not even in a dream, E. Fr. 107, Herod. 1.11 ; πολιτικὸς ἀνὴρ οὐδʼ ὄ. Cic. Att. 1.18.6 ; μηδʼ ἰδὼν ὄ. not even in my dreams, E. IT 518, cf. Pl. Tht. 173d, Mosch. 4.18 ; ἃ μηδʼ ὄ. ἤλπισαν D. 19.275 : hence freq. opp. ὕπαρ, v. ὕπαρ II; κατʼ ὄναρ

In the wild

ὄναρ · onar Aeschylus, Agamemnon 76–82
ὄναρ · onar Aeschylus, Eumenides 116
ὄναρ · onar Aeschylus, Eumenides 131–132
τοὔναρ · tounar Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 526
ὄναρ · onar Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 888–892
ὄναρ · onar Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 888–892

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὄναρ (scan p. 1133; entry #4570).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὄναρ (scan p. 819; entry #5941). Root candidates: *onryo-.
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὄναρ (scan pp. 1365-1366; entry #4271).

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