Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ómnymi/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ómnymi/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ómnimi/

Verb

ὄμνυμι • ‎(ómnumi)

1. to swear
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.175
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.279
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 282
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.108
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.331
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.288
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1284
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Halonnesus 10
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1377.A.11
2. to swear a thing, affirm or confirm by oath
   1. (followed by accusative)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.187
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1145
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.11
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.47
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 32
      • 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 16
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.30
   2. (followed by infinitive) swear that one will...
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.373
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 623
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 941
      • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 188
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.76
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.321
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Philon 1
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.3.26
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.7.40
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 357
      • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 119
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.179
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 170
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.31
   3. (absolute)
      • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 215.D
3. (with accusative of person or thing sworn by)
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.271
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.585
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.40
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.7
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 529
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1185
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 217
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.6.17
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 248
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 97
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.47
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 119
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Carousal Symposium or The Lapiths 32
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Otho 18
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 38.20.5
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 23.!6
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 816
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1241

Inflection

References

• ὄμνυμι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄμνυμι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὄμνυμι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὄμνυμι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὄμνυμι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὄμνυμι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• 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