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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wosno-, thematicization of *wósn̥ (“price”). Cognates include Sanskrit वस्न (vasná, “price”), Latin vēnum (“something for sale”), and Old Armenian գին (gin, “price”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ̂ː.nos/ → /ˈo.nos/ → /ˈo.nos/
Noun
ὦνος • (ônos) m (genitive ὤνου); second declension
- price (cost required to gain possession of something)
- Synonyms: τῑμή (tīmḗ), ὠνή (ōnḗ), ἀξίᾱ (axíā), τῖμος (tîmos)
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Further reading
- “ὦνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὦνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὦνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὦνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press