ὄντα

• ἐόντα (eónta) — Epic

Neuter plural of the present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “to be”), thus literally ‘things that are; existing things’.

ὄντᾰ • (óntă)

1. inflection of ὤν (ṓn):
   1. masculine accusative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

ὄντᾰ • (óntă)

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ὄν (ón)

ὄντᾰ • (óntă) n pl (genitive ὄντων); third declension

1. things which actually exist, opposed to past and future
2. reality, truth, actual objects
3. that which one has, property, fortune
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 102:

     ὁρῶν γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τὸ ναυτικὸν ὑμῶν καταλυόμενον καὶ τοὺς μὲν πλουσίους ἀτελεῖς ἀπὸ μικρῶν ἀναλωμάτων γιγνομένους, τοὺς δὲ μέτρι’ ἤ μικρὰ κεκτημένους τῶν πολιτῶν τὰ ὄντ’ ἀπολλύντας […]

     horôn gár, ô ándres Athēnaîoi, tò nautikòn humôn kataluómenon kaì toùs mèn plousíous ateleîs apò mikrôn analōmátōn gignoménous, toùs dè métri’ ḗ mikrà kektēménous tôn politôn tà ónt’ apollúntas […]

     For seeing, O Athenian men, your navy being lost and on the one hand the wealthy being exempt because of their small losses, and on the other those of the citizens having moderate or small means losing their property […]

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