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ὄνομα,
Aeolic dialect and Doric dialect ὄνῠμα [[ “IG” 12(2).68.8 (Lesb.), “GDI” 4992a iii 7 (from Crete), “SIG” 1122.8 (from Selinus), “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.167 (from Cyrene) ] Refs]; Laconian dialect *ἔνυμα probably in proper nouns Ἐνυμακρατίδας [[ “IG” 5(1).213.45, Ἐνυμαντιάδας [prev. work] 97.20, 280.2 ] Refs]; poetry also (for the sake of meter) οὔνομα (see.below), which appears regularly in codices of [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (along with ὀνομάζω, as 2.50, 4.35, +others)] Refs 5th c.BC+], and sometimes in other Ionic dialect prose authors (variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 25, etc.)] Refs 5th c.BC+], but is probably not Ionic; Ionic dialect Inscrr. have only ὄνομα, [[ “IG” 7.235.39 (from Oropus), etc.: 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has οὔνομα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.194, 9.355, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.235, οὐνόματ᾽ (α) 17.260, ὄνομα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.16, 364, 366, 19.183, ὄνομ᾽ (α) 4.710 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] et saep.:—name of a person or thing, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] always of a person, except ἐρέω δέ τοι οὔνομα λαῶν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.194 and in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.248 (see. infr. II); Οὖτις ἐμοί γ᾽ ὄ. 9.366, compare 18.5, 19.183, 247 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ἀρήτη δ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ ἐστὶν ἐπώνυμον [[ 7.54, compare 19.409, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 144: in Prose ὄνομα] Refs 8th c.BC+] is used absolutely, by name, πόλις ὄ. Καιναί [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.4.28, etc.: also _dative_, πόλις Θάψακος ὀνόματι [prev. work] 1.4.11 (variant) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀνόματι λέγειν by name, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 21c; ἐπ᾽ ὀνόματος δηλοῦσθαι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 18.45.4, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατ᾽ ὄνομα by name, [[ 3rd c.BC(?): Strato Comicus 1.14, “epigram Gr.” 983.4 (from Philae) ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἀσπάζου τοὺς φίλους κατ᾽ ὄ. each by his name, [[ NT.3John.14. ] NT]
Browse lexicon entries__2 ὄ. τίθεσθαι or θέσθαι τινί give one a name, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.403, 406, 8.554, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 6, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 810:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —passive, ὄ. κεῖταί τινι[[ [prev. work] 1291 ] Refs]; ὄ. ἐστι or κεῖται ἐπί τινι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.14.2, “Cyr.” 2.2.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ὄ. φέρειν or ἐπιφέρειν ἐπί τι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1119a33, “HA” 572a11. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 ὄνομα καλεῖν τινα call one by name, εἴπ᾽ ὄνομ᾽, ὅττι σε κεῖθι κάλεον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.550; καλοῦσί με τοῦτο τὸ ὄ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 7.3, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 259, 800, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 393e, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—so in passive, ὄ. δ᾽ ὠνομάζετο Ἕλενος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 605, compare “El.” 694; ὄ. δημοκρατία κέκληται 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37; τὸ ἐναντίον ὄ. ἀφροσύνη μετωνόμασται [prev. author] 1.122; ὄ. ἓν κεκλημένους Σικελιώτας [prev. author] 4.64; λεγόμενοι τοὔνομα γεωργικοί 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 842e; but also ὀνόματί τινα προσαγορεύειν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.40 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; reversely, ὄνομα καλεῖν τινι give a name to, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 279e, “Cra.” 385d; ὄ. καλεῖν ἐπί τινι [prev. author] “Prm.” 147d; τύμβῳ δ᾽ ὄ. σῷ κεκλήσεται.. Κυνὸς σῆμα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1271; τοὔνομα προσηγορεύθη 4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 21.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II name, fame, Ἰθάκης γε καὶ ἐς Τροίην ὄνομ᾽ ἵκει [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.248; οὐδὲ θανὼν ὄνομ᾽ ὤλεσας 24.93 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὄ. ἔχειν or σχεῖν ἀπό τινος, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.71, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 282a; τὸ μεγα ὄ. τῶν Ἀθηνῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.64; τῷ μέλλοντι χρόνῳ καταλιπεῖν ὄ. ὡς.. [prev. author] 5.16; τοὔνομά τινος μεῖζον ἀφικνεῖται εἰς τὴν πόλιν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.20; ὧν ὀνόματα μεγάλα λέγεται ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 281c; ὄ. μέγιστον ἔχειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.64 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ὀνόματι εἶναι to have a name, to be notable, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 9.1.23; οἱ ἐν πράγμασιν ἐπ᾽ ὀνόματος γεγονότες 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.35.1; παράσιτοι δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ὀνόματος ἐγένοντο ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]notably, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 6.240c; τῶν δι᾽ ὀνόματος παρασίτων [prev. work] 241a. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III a name and nothing else, opposed to the real person or thing, ἵνα μηδ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀνθρώποισι λίπηται [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.710; βοᾶς δ᾽ ἔτι μηδ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ εἴη 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.97 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to ἔργον, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 454, “Hipp.” 502; περὶ ὄ. μάχεσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 33.3; ἐκ τῶν ὀ. μᾶλλον ἢ τῶν πραγμάτων σκέψασθαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀνόματι διαφέρεσθαι dispute about a word, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 285a, “Lg.” 644a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 false name, pretence, pretext, ὀνόματι ἐννόμῳ ξυμμαχίας under the pretence.., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.60; μετ᾽ ὀνομάτων καλῶν [prev. author] 5.89; χώρα καλῶν ὀ. καὶ προσχημάτων μεστή 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 495c, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.5.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV in periphrastic phrases, ὄ. τῆς σωτηρίας, ={σωτηρία}, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 905, compare ὄνομ᾽ ὁμιλίας ἐμῆς (variant for ὄμμ᾽) [prev. author] “Or.” 1082 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with the names of persons, periphrastic for the person, ὦ φίλτατον ὄ. Πολυνείκους [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 1702. ] Refs]
__IV.2 of persons, ὄχλος ὀνομάτων [[ NT.Act.1.15 ] NT]; ἕτερα ὀ. ἀντ᾽ αὐτοῦ.. πέμψαι Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 28.19 (2nd c.AD) ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; in Accountancy, both of persons and things (cf. Latin nomen), [[ 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “adv. Athenogenem” 6, 10 (both _plural_), “Jahresh.” 26 “Beibl.” 13 (Ephes., 2nd c.AD, _plural_) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; βαρέσαι τὸ ἐμὸν ὄ. charge my account, [[ POxy. 126.8 (6th c.AD); τὸν τόκον τὸν ὀνόματί μου παραγραφέντα [prev. work]513.22 (2nd c.AD) ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; in registers of titledeeds, etc., οἰκίας οὐ κειμένης ἐν ὀνόματι τῆς ἀποδομένης not booked under the name of the seller, [[ “PLips.” 3 ii 25 (3rd c.AD) ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ὀνόματι ἰδιωτικῆς under the head of private land, [[ “PCair.Preis.” 47.10 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+]; δικαιώματα.. ἑκάστῳ ὀνόματι παράκειται [[ “BGU” 113.11 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; in tax-receipts, ἔσχον ὀνόματος Σομτοῦς on account of [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, “Ostr.Bodl.” ii 39 (2nd c.AD),compare “PFay.” 85.7 (3rd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__V phrase, expression, especially of technical terms, ὀ. τὰ ἐν τῇ ναυτικῇ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 1.19: generally, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.187. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VI Grammars, word, opposed to ῥῆμα (expression), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 399b, compare “Ap.” 17c, “Smp.” 198b, 199b, 221e, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.9, 11, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1404b5, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.72, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 12.25, +others, 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 23, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἰλλαίνειν ὄ. the word ἰλλαίνειν, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(1).679. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__VI.2 noun, opposed to ῥῆμα (verb, predicate), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 168b, “Sph.” 262a, 262b, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1457a10, “Int.” 16a19, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; as one of five parts of speech, [[ 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.45 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ὄ. κύριον a proper name, opposed to προσηγορικόν, [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 636.16, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 26.12, +others (so ὄ. alone, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 681 ff., 2nd c.BC: Diogenes Babylonius Stoicus 3.213) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of adjectives, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.222 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. (Cf. Gothic namo, genitive namins, Latin nōmen, Sanskrit nāma.)