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ὀνομάζω ὄνομα

I.to name or speak of by name, call or address by name, Il., Hdt., Xen.
2.of things, to name, specify, Il.
II.ὀν. τινά τι to call one something, Hdt., attic: in Mid., παῖδά μ᾽ ὠνομάζετο called me his son, Soph.:—Pass., ὄνομα δ᾽ ὠνομάζετο Ἕλενος id=Soph., etc.
2.εἶναι is often added pleon., τὰς οὐνομάζουσι εἶναι Ὑπερόχην καί . . whose names they say are Hyperoche and . . , Hdt.; σοφιστὴν ὀνομάζουσιν τὸν ἄνδρα εἶναι Plat.
III.to name or call after . . , ἐπί τινι Hdt., etc.; ἔκ τινος Soph.:—Pass., ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦτο οὐνομάζεται hence this saying has arisen, Hdt.
IV.to use names or words, μάλα σεμνῶς ὀνομάζων Dem.

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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