Ancient Greek dictionary · noun

ὄνομα

name

Transliteration: onoma

Dictionary forms: ὄνομᾰ, ὀνόμᾰτος

Inflection: third declension

Meaning and definitions

1. name
2. fame (compare English make a name for oneself)
3. noun, in the wide sense: referring to most word classes that are declined for case and number – a substantive (English noun), an adjective, or a pronoun – but excluding the relative pronoun ὅς (hós) and the article ὁ (ho)
4. phrase

Connected roots

• -onym

  name

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• anonymous

  of unknown name or authorship

• acronym

  An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.

• synonym

  a word that means exactly or nearly the same as another

• pseudonym

  A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars.

Recorded forms

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