ὄνωνις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀνωνίς (anōnís), ὀνωνίς (onōnís)

Etymology

Furnée argues for a Pre-Greek origin, given the variation α/ο.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.nɔː.nis/ → /ˈo.no.nis/ → /ˈo.no.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.nɔː.nis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.no.nis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.no.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.no.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.no.nis/

Noun

ὄνωνῐς • (ónōnĭs) f (genitive ὀνώνῐδος); third declension

1. restharrow (Ononis spinosa)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὄνωνῐς; τῆς ὀνώνῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄνωνῐς hē ónōnĭs	τὼ ὀνώνῐδε tṑ onṓnĭde	αἱ ὀνώνῐδες hai onṓnĭdes
Genitive	τῆς ὀνώνῐδος tês onṓnĭdos	τοῖν ὀνωνῐ́δοιν toîn onōnĭ́doin	τῶν ὀνωνῐ́δων tôn onōnĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ὀνώνῐδῐ têi onṓnĭdĭ	τοῖν ὀνωνῐ́δοιν toîn onōnĭ́doin	ταῖς ὀνώνῐσῐ / ὀνώνῐσῐν taîs onṓnĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀνώνῐδᾰ tḕn onṓnĭdă	τὼ ὀνώνῐδε tṑ onṓnĭde	τᾱ̀ς ὀνώνῐδᾰς tā̀s onṓnĭdăs
Vocative	ὄνωνῐς ónōnĭs	ὀνώνῐδε onṓnĭde	ὀνώνῐδες onṓnĭdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Latin: onōnis
  • → Translingual: Ononis

Further reading

• “ὄνωνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄνωνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN