The corpus record

ὠν-ητής

onetes · ὁ

buyer, purchaser

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Where it lives

Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

buyer, purchaser, a purchaser

buyer, purchaser, X. Oec. 2.3, Thphr. Char. 12.8, Is. Fr. 173, Plu. Cat.Mi. 36, etc.; τινος of something, Pl. Erx. 394e, Aeschin. 1.108, Plu. Ages. 9; ὠνητὴν λαβεῖν to find a purchaser, Antiph. 161.7.

2 contractor, lessee

contractor, IG 2(2).1596.3; lessee of mines, ib. 1587.4, al.

In the wild

ὠνητὰς · ōnētas Aristotle, Politics 1273a (DIORISIS sentence 816)
ὠνηταῖς · ōnētais Plato, Laws 841
ὠνητέα · ōnētea Plato, Laws 849
ὠνηταὶ · ōnētai Plato, Republic 8.544 (DIORISIS sentence 4751)
ὠνητήν · ōnētēn Thucydides, History 3.40.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1989)
ὠνητοῦ · ōnētou Xenophon, Economics 2.3 (DIORISIS sentence 79)

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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