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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

  • ἆρ’ οὖν κράτιστον ἐξ ἀγορᾶσ γαμεῖν Ἀβρότονόν τινα Θρῇσσαν ἢ Βακχίδα Μιλησίαν ἀνέγγυον ἐπαγομένην δι’ ὠνῆσ καὶ καταχυσμάτων; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 9 3:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὁ δεῖνα μὰ Δία κατέβαινε περὶ ὠνῆσ ἀνδραπόδου χρησόμενοσ οὐδ’ ὁ, δεῖνα περὶ ἐργασίασ, ἀλλὰ πόλεισ μέγα δυνάμεναι καὶ βασιλεῖσ καὶ τύραννοι μέτριον οὐδὲν φρονοῦντεσ ἐνετύγχανον τῷ θεῷ περὶ πραγμάτων οὓσ ἀνιᾶν καὶ παροξύνειν ἀπεχθείᾳ πολλὰ τῶν ἀβουλήτων ἀκούοντασ οὐκ ἐλυσιτέλει τοῖσ περὶ τὸ χρηστήριον. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 262)
  • πράσεωσ γὰρ καὶ ὠνῆσ περιουσία καρπῶν ἀρχὴν παρέσχεν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 42 1:4)
  • πράσεωσ γὰρ καὶ ὠνῆσ περιουσία καρπῶν ἀρχὴν παρέσχεν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 42 4:2)
  • τὰ δὲ ἄλλα, ὅσα ἦν δημόσια, χωρὶσ ὠνῆσ τὸν δῆμον παραλαβόντα διελέσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 32 3:5)

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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