1. ὄρνεον · orneon — Beekes
The corpus record
ὄρνεον
orneon
bird
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Where it lives
- Epistula Jeremiae 2 · 15.89/10k
- Birds 13 · 12.2/10k
- Osee 2 · 5.31/10k
- Proverbia 5 · 4.5/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 3 · 4.35/10k
- Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
- Minos 1 · 3.51/10k
- Amos 1 · 3.25/10k
- Revelation 3 · 3.03/10k
- Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
- Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
- Genesis 6 · 2/10k
Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
ὄρνεον [n.] ‘bird’ (N 64). eVAR Also dpvic, -ἴθος [m., f.] ‘(augural) bird’ (IL), in later Att. especially ‘hen, cock’, acc.sg. also -tv, plur. also -εἰς, -ἰς (trag., D.), Dor. -ixos, etc. (Pi, Alcm., B., Theoc., Cyrene), dat.pl. -ίχεσσι and ~&, whence nom.sg. -ἰξ, gen.pl. -ixwv (Hell. pap.). *COMP A few late compounds, e.g. ὀρνεο-θηρευτική [f.] ‘the art of bird-catching’ (Ath.). Often as a … — [Beekes, s.v. ὄρνεον, p. 1157]
2. ὄρνεον · orneon — Chantraine
11. ὄρνεον τι. « oiseau » (11, 13,64, Th., Ar., etc.), τὰ ὄρνεα «marché aux oiseaux » (Ar.). Composés rares et tardifs : ὀρνεο-θηρευτική «art de l'oiseleur » (Ath.), -θυσία, -πώλης, -σκόπος, -φουτος, Dérivés : ὀρνεώδης « qui ressemble à un oiseau » dit d’un homme changeant (Plu.), -εὐτῆς « oiseleur » (Poll.), -εακός « qui concerne 168 oiseaux » (Tz.) ; verbe ὀρνεάζομαι « porter la tête haute comme pour guetter les … — [Chantraine, s.v. ὄρνεον, p. 840]
3. ὄρνεον · orneon — Frisk
ὄρνεον, κερκιϑαλίς" ἐρῳδιός (vgl. αἰγίϑαλος), κέρκος" «ἀλεκτρυών H.; inwieweit Vermischung mit κέρκος ‘Schwanz eines Tieres’ (5. ἃ.) stattgefunden hat, bleibt offen. — [Frisk, s.v. ὄρνεον, p. 987]
4. ὄρνεον · orneon — Frisk
ὄρνεον ἢ. “Vogel’ (seit N 64). Einige sp. Kompp., z.B. ὀρνεοϑηρευτική f. “Vogelfängerkunst’” (Ath.). Davon dove-wöng ‘“vogelähnlich’ (Plu.), -ώτης m. "Vogelfänger’ (Poll.), -ακός “die Vögel betreffend’ (Tz.), -άζομαι *zwitschern’ (Aq.), ‘den Kopf hoch tragen’ („nach den Vögeln schauen‘, Kom. Adesp.). — Daneben ὅρνϊς, -ἴϑος usw. (seit Il.), Akk. sg. auch -w, pl. auch -εἰς, -ἴς (Trag., D.usw.), dor. -iyos usw. (Pi., … — [Frisk, s.v. ὄρνεον, p. 1393]
5. ὄρνεον · orneon — LSJ
bird
= ὄρνις, bird, Il. 13.64, Cratin. 108, Ar. Av. 291, 305, Th. 2.50, Pl. Phdr. 274c, al., Arist. GA 756a16, al.
II bird-market
τὰ ὄ. the bird-market, Ar. Av. 13.
In the wild
- ὄρνεα · ornea Aristophanes, Birds 1140 (DIORISIS sentence 837)
- ὀρνέων · orneōn Aristophanes, Birds 1405 (DIORISIS sentence 1026)
- ὀρνέοις · orneois Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1169)
- ὀρνέων · orneōn Aristophanes, Birds 305 (DIORISIS sentence 271)
- ὄρνεον · orneon Aristophanes, Birds 65 (DIORISIS sentence 55)
- ὀρνέων · orneōn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 13)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὄρνεον (scan pp. 1157-1158; entry #4653).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὄρνεον (scan p. 840; entry #6037).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὄρνεον (scan pp. 1393-1394; entry #4332). Root candidates: *or-.
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