ὄνειδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *oneidos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃neyd-os (“blame, revilement”); compare Gothic 𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌸 (neiþ), Sanskrit निन्दा (nindā́), Latvian naids.^[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ὄνειδος • (óneidos) n (genitive ὀνείδεος or ὀνείδους); third declension

blame, reproach, criticism
Synonyms: μομφή (momphḗ), ψόγος (psógos)

Declension

Third declension of ὄνειδος; ὀνείδεος / ὀνείδευς (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὄνειδος óneidos	ὀνείδεε / ὀνείδει oneídee / oneídei	ὀνείδεᾰ oneídeă
Genitive	ὀνείδεος / ὀνείδευς oneídeos / oneídeus	ὀνειδέοιῐ̈ν oneidéoiĭ̈n	ὀνειδέων oneidéōn
Dative	ὀνείδεῐ̈ / ὀνείδει oneídeĭ̈ / oneídei	ὀνειδέοιῐ̈ν oneidéoiĭ̈n	ὀνείδεσῐ / ὀνείδεσῐν / ὀνείδεσσῐ / ὀνείδεσσῐν / ὀνειδέεσσῐ / ὀνειδέεσσῐν oneídesĭ(n) / oneídessĭ(n) / oneidéessĭ(n)
Accusative	ὄνειδος óneidos	ὀνείδεε / ὀνείδει oneídee / oneídei	ὀνείδεᾰ oneídeă
Vocative	ὄνειδος óneidos	ὀνείδεε / ὀνείδει oneídee / oneídei	ὀνείδεᾰ oneídeă
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Third declension of τὸ ὄνειδος; τοῦ ὀνείδους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὄνειδος tò óneidos	τὼ ὀνείδει tṑ oneídei	τᾰ̀ ὀνείδη tằ oneídē
Genitive	τοῦ ὀνείδους toû oneídous	τοῖν ὀνειδοῖν toîn oneidoîn	τῶν ὀνειδῶν tôn oneidôn
Dative	τῷ ὀνείδει tōî oneídei	τοῖν ὀνειδοῖν toîn oneidoîn	τοῖς ὀνείδεσῐ / ὀνείδεσῐν toîs oneídesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ὄνειδος tò óneidos	τὼ ὀνείδει tṑ oneídei	τᾰ̀ ὀνείδη tằ oneídē
Vocative	ὄνειδος óneidos	ὀνείδει oneídei	ὀνείδη oneídē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ὀνείδειος (oneídeios)
ὀνειδίζω (oneidízō)

Descendants

Greek: όνειδος (óneidos)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ὄνειδος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1082

“ὄνειδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὄνειδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ὄνειδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὄνειδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
“ὄνειδος”, 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.
- abuse idem, page 5.
- blemish idem, page 83.
- blot idem, page 85.
- brand idem, page 93.
- by-word idem, page 107.
- degradation idem, page 206.
- discredit idem, page 231.
- disgrace idem, page 233.
- dishonour idem, page 234.
- ignominy idem, page 414.
- infamy idem, page 437.
- obloquy idem, page 566.
- opprobrium idem, page 577.
- recrimination idem, page 684.
- reflection idem, page 684.
- reproach idem, page 698.
- scandal idem, page 737.
- scolding idem, page 740.
- scorn idem, page 740.
- shame idem, page 761.
- slur idem, page 786.
- smirch idem, page 787.
- stain idem, page 809.
- stigma idem, page 817.
- taunt idem, page 857.
ὄνειδος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ὄνειδος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1082

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