Ancient Greek

Noun

ὄνος • ‎(ónos) m, f ‎(genitive ὄνου); second declension

1. ass, donkey
2. hake (fish)
3. woodlouse
4. wingless locust
5. windlass

Inflection

Derived terms

• περὶ ὄνου σκιᾶς ‎(perì ónou skiâs, “for a trifle”)
• ὄνου πόκαι ‎(ónou pókai), ὄνου πόκες ‎(ónou pókes, “pigeon's milk”)
• ὄνων φάτνη ‎(ónōn phátnē, “Beehive Cluster”)
• ἀπ’ ὄνου καταπεσεῖν ‎(ap’ ónou katapeseîn, “one who gets into a scrape by his own clumsiness”)
• ὄνος ὕεται ‎(ónos húetai, “one who is unmoved by what is done or said”)
• ὄνος ἄγω μυστήρια ‎(ónos ágō mustḗria, “my part is to carry burdens”)
• ὄνων ὑβριστότερος ‎(ónōn hubristóteros, “of wanton behaviour”)

Synonyms

• (wingless locust): τρωξαλλίς ‎(trōxallís)

Descendants

• Greek: όνος m ‎(ónos)

References

• ὄνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὄνος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὄνος» 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
• «ὄνος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὄνος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3688”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ass idem, page 45.
  • donkey idem, page 247.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill