ὄνος

See also: όνος

Ancient Greek

Uncertain. Perhaps from Pre-Greek. Compare the discussion at Latin asinus.

ὄνος • (ónos) m or f (genitive ὄνου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄνος ho ónos	τὼ ὄνω tṑ ónō	οἱ ὄνοι hoi ónoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὄνου toû ónou	τοῖν ὄνοιν toîn ónoin	τῶν ὄνων tôn ónōn
Dative	τῷ ὄνῳ tôi ónōi	τοῖν ὄνοιν toîn ónoin	τοῖς ὄνοις toîs ónois
Accusative	τὸν ὄνον tòn ónon	τὼ ὄνω tṑ ónō	τοὺς ὄνους toùs ónous
Vocative	ὄνε óne	ὄνω ónō	ὄνοι ónoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ὄναγρος (ónagros)
περὶ ὄνου σκιᾶς (perì ónou skiâs, “for a trifle”)
ὄνου πόκαι (ónou pókai), ὄνου πόκες (ónou pókes, “pigeon's milk”)
ὄνων φάτνη (ónōn phátnē, “Beehive Cluster”)
ἀπ’ ὄνου καταπεσεῖν (ap’ ónou katapeseîn, “one who gets into a scrape by his own clumsiness”)
ὄνος ὕεται (ónos húetai, “one who is unmoved by what is done or said”)
ὄνος ἄγω μυστήρια (ónos ágō mustḗria, “my part is to carry burdens”)
ὄνων ὑβριστότερος (ónōn hubristóteros, “of wanton behaviour”)
ὀνῖτις (onîtis, “pot marjoram”)

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“ὄνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ὄνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὄνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
ὄνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ὄνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3688 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ass idem, page 45.
- donkey idem, page 247.
ὄνος in Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN