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ὀνομαίνω , h.Ven.290, Aeol. and Dor. ὀνυ^μαίνω GDI4992aiii 6 (Gortyn), Ti.Locr.100c (Pass.): Ion. fut.
A.“οὐνομανέω” Hdt.4.47 (v.l. ὀν-) : aor. “ὠνόμηνα” Is.3.33 ; Ep. “ὀνόμηνα” Hom., Hes. (v. infr.); Boeot. “ὠνούμηνα” Corinn. 2cod. (fort. -ανα) :—Ep. and Ion. Verb, = ὀνομάζω, name or call by name, “φίλον τ᾽ ὀνόμηνεν ἑταῖρον” Il.10.522, cf. 16.491, etc. ; “θεοὺς ὀ. ἅπαντας” 14.278 ; of things, name, recount, “περικλυτὰ δῶρ᾽ ὀνομήνω” 9.121 ; “πληθὺν οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ μυθήσομαι οὐδ᾽ ὀνομήνω” 2.488 ; so “πάντα μὲν οὐκ ἂν . . ” Od.4.240, etc.—Rare in Prose, Hdt. and Is. Il. cc.
2. simply, utter, speak, “ἴσχεο μηδ᾽ ὀνομήνῃς” Od.11.251, cf. h.Ven.290 ; then (cf. “ὀνομάζω” 1.2) promise to do, “ὄρχους δέ μοι ὧδ᾽ ὀνόμηνας δώσειν” Od.24.341.
II. name, call by a name, Hes.Op.80 ; “καί οἱ τοῦτ᾽ ὀνόμην᾽ ὄνομ᾽ ἔμμεναι” Id.Fr.116.2: in Dor. Prose, ἁδοναὶ ὀνυμαίνονται Ti.Locr.l.c., etc.
III. nominate, appoint, “καὶ σὸν θεράποντ᾽ ὀνόμηνεν” Il.23.90.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.47
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 80
    • Homer, Iliad, 10.522
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.278
    • Homer, Iliad, 16.491
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.90
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.488
    • Homer, Iliad, 9.121
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.251
    • Homer, Odyssey, 24.341
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.240
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 5 to Aphrodite, 1.2
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 5 to Aphrodite, 290
    • Isaeus, Pyrrhus, 33
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