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 • (ónōnis) 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 ónōnis	τὼ ὀνώνῐδε tṑ onṓnide	αἱ ὀνώνῐδες hai onṓnides
Genitive	τῆς ὀνώνῐδος tês onṓnidos	τοῖν ὀνωνῐ́δοιν toîn onōnídoin	τῶν ὀνωνῐ́δων tôn onōnídōn
Dative	τῇ ὀνώνῐδῐ têi onṓnidi	τοῖν ὀνωνῐ́δοιν toîn onōnídoin	ταῖς ὀνώνῐσῐ / ὀνώνῐσῐν taîs onṓnisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀνώνῐδᾰ tḕn onṓnida	τὼ ὀνώνῐδε tṑ onṓnide	τᾱ̀ς ὀνώνῐδᾰς tā̀s onṓnidas
Vocative	ὄνωνῐς ónōnis	ὀνώνῐδε onṓnide	ὀνώνῐδες onṓnides
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