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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Derived from the root of ὄναρ (ónar) with a suffix *-yos. Cognate with Old Armenian անուրջ (anurǰ) and Albanian ëndërr.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó.neː.ros/ → /ˈo.ni.ros/ → /ˈo.ni.ros/
Noun
ὄνειρος • (óneiros) m (genitive ὀνείρου); second declension
- dream
- anything which is dreamlike, unreal, fleeting
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὄναρ (> VAR > ὄνειρος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1082
Further reading
- “ὄνειρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄνειρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄνειρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄνειρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὄνειρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὄνειρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “ὄνειρος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011