Etym.: commonly deriv. from oi)=os, |- most birds of prey being solitary, - cf. koinwno/s from koino/s

Sense

1. a large bird, bird of prey, a vulture or eagle
2. a bird of omen or augury, to, from)
3. an omen, presage, augurium, seeing their flight or hearing their cry, the omen

Examples

• πλήν γε περὶ τῷ δέρματι δέδοικα τουτονὶ τὸν οἰωνόν. (Aristotle, Prologue 1:30)
• ὁ δ’, ὡσ ἐν ἱερῷ μάντεσίν τ’ ἐσθλοῖσ τραφείσ, οἰωνὸν ἔθετο, κἀκέλευσ’ ἄλλον νέον κρατῆρα πληροῦν· (Euripides, Ion, episode 4:7)
• πονηρὸν εἶπασ οἰωνὸν λόγον. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees23)
• οἰωνὸν ἐθέμην καλλίνικα σὰ στέφη· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode19)
• "ὦ θύγατερ, καὶ δέχομαι τὸν οἰωνόν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 10 4:3)

Similar forms

• οἱών (105)
• οἰωνῶν (75)
• οἰώνται (43)
• οἰωνὸν (41)
• οἰωνοῖς (36)
• οἰωνοὺς (25)
• οἰῶν (24)
• οἰωνὸς (15)
• ὀίων (15)
• οἰωνοὶ (14)
• οἰωνούς (10)
• οἰωνόν (10)
• οἰωνοῦ (10)
• οἰωνός (9)
• οἰωνοῖσιν (7)
• οἰωνοί (6)
• οἰωνοῖσι (6)
• οἰωνῷ (5)
• οἰωνίζετο (4)
• ὀί̈ων (3)
• οἰών (3)
• οἰωνοῖο (3)
• οἰωνοῖσί (3)
• οἰωνισμόν (2)
• οἰωνισμῷ (2)
• οἰώνισμα (2)
• οἰωνιστής (2)
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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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