ὄνομα

See also: όνομα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

    PIE word
    *h₁nómn̥

    From Proto-Hellenic *ónomə, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (name).[1] Cognate with Phrygian ονομαν (onoman), Latin nōmen, Old Irish ainm, Old English nama (English name), Old Church Slavonic имѧ (imę), Old Armenian անուն (anun), Persian نام (nām), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man).

    Pronunciation

     

    Noun

    ὄνομᾰ • (ónomăn (genitive ὀνόμᾰτος); third declension

    1. name
      • Oedipus Tyrannus, 1036 Sophocles:
        ἔκδημος ὢν ἔφῡν, οὐ γῐγνώσκω δὲ τοὔνομᾰ
        ékdēmos ṑn éphūn, ou gĭgnṓskō dè toúnomă
        I was born abroad, but I do not know the name
      • :
        Εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος. Ἀμήν.
        Eis tò ónoma toû Patròs kaì toû Huioû kaì toû Hagíou Pneúmatos. Amḗn.
        In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
    2. fame (compare English make a name for oneself)
    3. (grammar) noun, in the wide sense: referring to most word classes that are declined for case and number – a substantive (English noun), an adjective, or a pronoun – but excluding the relative pronoun ὅς (hós) and the article (ho)
      • 170 BCE – 90 BCE, Dionysius Thrax, Art of Grammar:
        Ὄνομά ἐστι μέρος λόγου πτωτικόν, σῶμα ἢ πρᾶγμα σημαῖνον, σῶμα μὲν οἷον λίθος, πρᾶγμα δὲ οἷον παιδεία, κοινῶς τε καὶ ἰδίως λεγόμενον, κοινῶς μὲν οἷον ἄνθρωπος ἵππος, ἰδίως δὲ οἷον Σωκράτης. παρέπεται δὲ τῷ ὀνόματι πέντε· γένη, εἴδη, σχήματα, ἀριθμοί, πτώσεις.
        Ónomá esti méros lógou ptōtikón, sôma ḕ prâgma sēmaînon, sôma mèn hoîon líthos, prâgma dè hoîon paideía, koinôs te kaì idíōs legómenon, koinôs mèn hoîon ánthrōpos híppos, idíōs dè hoîon Sōkrátēs. parépetai dè tōî onómati pénte; génē, eídē, skhḗmata, arithmoí, ptṓseis.
        • 1874 translation by Thomas Davidson
          A Noun is a declinable part of speech, signifying something either concrete or abstract (concrete, as stone; abstract, as education); common or proper (common, as man, horse; proper, as Socrates, Plato). It has five accidents: genders, species, forms, numbers, and cases.
    4. (grammar) phrase

    Declension

    Hyponyms

    grammar, noun:
    • ἐπίκοινον (epíkoinon) (nomen epicoenum; epicene noun)
    • κύριον ὄνομα (kúrion ónoma) (nomen proprium; proper noun)
    • ἐθνικόν (ethnikón) [ὄνομα] (nomen gentile)
    • προσηγορικόν (prosēgorikón), προσηγορία (prosēgoría) (nomen appellativum; appellative noun)
    • ὑποκοριστικόν (hupokoristikón) [ὄνομα] ([nomen] deminutivum/diminutivum; diminutive [noun])
    • ἐπίθετον (epítheton), ἐπιθετικόν (epithetikón) (nomen adjectivum; [noun] adjective)
    • ἀριθμητικόν (arithmētikón) (nomen numerale cardinale; cardinal number)
    • τακτικόν (taktikón) (nomen numerale ordinale; ordinal number)

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Greek: όνομα (ónoma)
    • Mariupol Greek: о́ныма (ónyma)
    • Latin: onoma (semantic loan)
    • English: -onym (learned, from international scientific vocabulary)

    References

    1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ὄνομα, -ατος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1084-5

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