ὄνειρος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄνειρον (óneiron)
• ὄνοιρος (ónoiros) — Aeolic
• ὄνειρα (óneira)

Etymology

Derived from the root of ὄναρ (ónar) with a suffix *-yos. Cognate with Old Armenian անուրջ (anurǰ) and Albanian ëndërr.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.neː.ros/ → /ˈo.ni.ros/ → /ˈo.ni.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.neː.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ni.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ni.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ni.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ni.ros/

Noun

ὄνειρος • (óneiros) m (genitive ὀνείρου); second declension

1. dream

   Synonym: ὄναρ (ónar)

2. anything which is dreamlike, unreal, fleeting

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὄνειρος; τοῦ ὀνείρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄνειρος ho óneiros	τὼ ὀνείρω tṑ oneírō	οἱ ὄνειροι hoi óneiroi
Genitive	τοῦ ὀνείρου toû oneírou	τοῖν ὀνείροιν toîn oneíroin	τῶν ὀνείρων tôn oneírōn
Dative	τῷ ὀνείρῳ tôi oneírōi	τοῖν ὀνείροιν toîn oneíroin	τοῖς ὀνείροις toîs oneírois
Accusative	τὸν ὄνειρον tòn óneiron	τὼ ὀνείρω tṑ oneírō	τοὺς ὀνείρους toùs oneírous
Vocative	ὄνειρε óneire	ὀνείρω oneírō	ὄνειροι óneiroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀνείρειος (oneíreios)
• ὀνειρόπολος (oneirópolos)

 

Descendants

• → English: oneiro-
• Greek: όνειρο (óneiro)

Further reading

• “ὄνειρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄνειρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄνειρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄνειρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὄνειρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὄνειρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dream idem, page 251.
• “ὄνειρος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011