A.call by a new name, ἐκ τῶν αἰγέων . . αἰγίδας . . μετωνόμασαν called them by a new name—αἰγίδες, Hdt.4.189; τὰς φυλὰς μετωνόμασε (sc. Cleisthenes) Id.5.69, cf. Phld.Mus.p.50 K.:—Pass., take or receive a new name, “ἀντὶ Λυδῶν μετονομασθῆναι ἐπὶ τοῦ βασιλέος” Hdt.1.94; “Βάττος μετωνομάσθη” took the name of B., Id.4.155; “καταφρόνησιν ἣ . . ὄνομα ἀφροσύνη μετωνόμασται” Th.1.122; καινῶς μετωνομασμένον new-fangled, Pl.Tht.180a.
μετονομ-άζω ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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