The corpus record

ὀνήσῐ-μος

onesimos

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Where it lives

Philemon 1 · 30.49/10k
Colossians 1 · 6.46/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. ὀνήσιμος · onēsimos — Chantraine

ὀνήσιμος, etc. ; σπόνδικες * οἱ τὰς σπονδὰς χέοντες (Hsch.), hypocoristique familier pour σπονδοφόρος. Nom d'action en -ou tiré de σπένδω : σπεῖσις (tardif), ἐπίσπεισις «libation après un sacrifice » (Hdt. 2,39), κατά- (Plu.). Sur cette famille de mots, voir A. Citron, Semantische Uniers. zu σπένδεσθαι, σπένδειν, εὔχεσθαι 1-72, Gasabona, Vocabulaire des sacrifices 231-268, Rudhardt, Notions fondamentales 240-246, … — [Chantraine, s.v. ὀνήσιμος, p. 1056]

2. ὀνήσῐ-μος · onēsi-mos — LSJ

useful, profitable, beneficial, aiding, succouring

useful, profitable, beneficial, h.Merc. 30, A. Eu. 924 (lyr.) ; πεπονθὼς ὀνήσιμα S. Ant. 995, cf. Aj. 665, etc. ; aiding, succouring, ἔγχος Id. Tr. 1014 (lyr.). Adv. -μως Pl. Lg. 747c.

In the wild

ὀνησίμους · onēsimous Aeschylus, Eumenides 921–926
Ὀνησίμῳ · Onēsimōi New Testament, Colossians 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 55)
Ὀνήσιμον · Onēsimon New Testament, Philemon 8–12
ὀνησίμως · onēsimōs Plato, Laws 747
ὀνήσιμα · onēsima Sophocles, Ajax 664–665
ὀνήσιμα · onēsima Sophocles, Antigone 995

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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