Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀνυμάζω ‎(onumázō) Aeolic, Doric
• ὀυνομάζω ‎(ounomázō) (Ionic)

Verb

ὀνομάζω • ‎(onomázō)

1. I speak of by name, address by name
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.68
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.415
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.2
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.1
   1. (of things) I name, specify
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.515
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.449
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 160.b
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 166.c
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 201.d
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 294
      • 380 BCE – 315 BCE, Theopompus Historicus, Collected Works 121
2. I call one something
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 681
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 46
   • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1193
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 87
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.6
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.44
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 238.a
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1021
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 605
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3
   1. I nominate
3. I name after
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 183
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493.c
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1036
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1105
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.5.12
4. I say or give names
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 35
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 122
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 158
   • 490 BCE – 430 BCE, Empedocles, Collected Works 8.4
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.86
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.130
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Parmenides, On Nature 9.1
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.98
5. I make famous
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against Lochites 19

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References

• ὀνομάζω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀνομάζω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀνομάζω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὀνομάζω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ὀνομάζω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G3687”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979