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ὠνή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠνή

Structure: ὠν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: w)=nos

Sense

  1. a buying, purchasing, buying
  2. a purchase, a bargain
  3. a contract for the farming of taxes
  4. the purchase-money, price

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πάνυ γοῦν ἤδη βελτίων γεγένησαι διὰ τὴν ὠνήν, ὃσ τοιαῦτα μὲν φθέγγῃ ‐ μᾶλλον δὲ τῶν ἰχθύων ἀφωνότεροσ εἶ ‐ βιοῖσ δὲ ὡσ οὐδ’ εἰπεῖν καλόν, μῖσοσ δὲ ἄγριον, φασί, παρὰ πάντων ἔχεισ ἐπὶ τῇ βδελυρίᾳ· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 16:2)
  • Ζητῶν δὲ ἀεὶ πρὸσ ἐμαυτὸν οὔπω καὶ τήμερον εὑρεῖν δεδύνημαι τίνοσ ἕνεκα τὴν σπουδὴν ταύτην ἐσπούδακασ περὶ τὴν ὠνὴν τῶν βιβλίων ὠφελείασ μὲν γὰρ ἢ χρείασ τῆσ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν οὐδ’ ἂν οἰηθείη τισ τῶν καὶ ἐπ’ ἐλάχιστόν σε εἰδότων, οὐ μᾶλλον ἢ φαλακρὸσ ἄν τισ πρίαιτο κτένασ ἢ κάτοπτρον ὁ τυφλὸσ ἢ ὁ κωφὸσ αὐλητὴν ἢ παλλακὴν ὁ εὐνοῦχοσ ἢ ὁ ἠπειρώτησ κώπην ἢ ὁ κυβερνήτησ ἄροτρον. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 19:2)
  • περὶ δύο ταῦτα δεινῶσ ἐσπούδακασ, βιβλίων τε τῶν πολυτελῶν κτῆσιν καὶ μειρακίων τῶν ἐξώρων καὶ ἤδη καρτερῶν ὠνήν, καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμά σοι πάνυ σπουδάζεται καὶ θηρεύεται. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 25:2)
  • τὰ μὲν περὶ τὴν ὠνήν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 10 2:10)
  • ἐλθόντεσ δ’ ἐπὶ τὸ μυροπώλιον τὸ μὲν γραμματεῖον τιθέμεθα παρὰ Λυσικλεῖ Λευκονοιεῖ, τὰσ δὲ τετταράκοντα μνᾶσ ἐγὼ καταβαλὼν τὴν ὠνὴν ἐποιησάμην. (Hyperides, Speeches, 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. a buying

  2. a purchase

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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