1. ὄνομαι · onomai — Beekes
The corpus record
ὄνομαι
onomai
to scold, blame, insult
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Where it lives
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
- Clouds 1 · 1.04/10k
- Iliad 10 · 0.9/10k
- Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
- Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. ὄνομαι · onomai — Chantraine
3. ὄνομαι · onomai — Frisk
4. ὄνομαι · onomai — LSJ
blame, find fault with, treat scornfully, c. acc., νῦν δέ σευ ὠνοσάμην πάγχυ φρένας Il. 14.95 ; οὔ τίς τοι τὸν μῦθον ὀνόσσεται 9.55 ; οὐδέ κεν . . μένος καὶ χεῖρας ὄνοιτο 13.287 ; ὡς ἂν σὴν ἀρετὴν . . οὔ τις ὄνοιτο Od. 8.239 : folld. by a relat., ἦ οὔνεσθʼ ὅτι μοι . . Ζεὺς ἄλγεʼ ἔδωκεν; do ye think it a light thing that . . ? (others wrongly refer it to ὀνίνημι, is it to your profit that . . ?), Il. 24.241 ; ἦ ὄνοσαι ὅτι τοι βίοτον κατέδουσιν ἄνακτος ; Od. 17.378: c. gen., οὐδʼ ὧς σε ἔολπα ὀνόσσ
In the wild
- ὄναιτʼ · onaitʼ Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 954)
- ὤνατο · ōnato Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4678)
- ὀνώμεθα · onōmetha Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 805)
- ὄνονται · onontai Herodotus, Histories 2.167.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2758)
- ὀνόσαιτο · onosaito Iliad 13.127
- ὄνοιτο · onoito Iliad 13.287
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὄνομαι (scan pp. 1136-1137; entry #4581). Root candidates: *dvod-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὄνομαι (scan p. 821; entry #5952).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὄνομαι (scan p. 1369; entry #4280).
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