The corpus record

ὀνειρ-ώσσω

oneirosso

dream, dream of, have an emission of semen during sleep

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Where it lives

De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
Theaetetus 2 · 0.89/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Republic 3 · 0.34/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ὀνειρ-ώσσω · oneir-ōssō — LSJ

dream, dream of

dream, Pl. Tht. 158b, R. 476c, al. ; περὶ τὸ ὄν ib. 533b : c. acc. rei, dream of, τὴν τρίτην [οὐσίαν], ἣν ἅπαντες ὀ., λέγει δʼ οὐδείς Arist. GC 335b8, cf. Phld. Mus. pp. 22,65 K., Luc. Gall. 32.

II have an emission of semen during sleep

have an emission of semen during sleep, Hp. Morb. 2.51, Ph. 2.231, Philostr. Gym. 49, 52, Sch. Ar. Nu. 16.

In the wild

ὀνειρώττει · oneirōttei Aristotle, De Divinatione per Somnum (DIORISIS sentence 16)
ὀνειρώττουσιν · oneirōttousin Aristotle, De Somno et Vigilia (DIORISIS sentence 1)
ὀνειρώττω · oneirōttō Plato, Cratylus 439 (DIORISIS sentence 1396)
ὀνειρώττων · oneirōttōn Plato, Laws 656
ὠνείρωξεν · ōneirōxen Plato, Laws 800
ὀνειρώττειν · oneirōttein Plato, Republic 5.476 (DIORISIS sentence 3448)

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