# ὠνέομαι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ὦνος (ônos, “price”) +‎ -έομαι (-éomai).
The suppletive aorist ἐπρῐάμην (epriámēn) is from Proto-Indo-European *kʷreyh₂- (“to buy”). Cognates include Welsh prynu, Old Irish crenaid, Sanskrit क्रीणाति (krīṇā́ti) (root क्री (krī)), Old East Slavic крити (kriti).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔː.né.o.mai̯/ → /oˈne.o.mɛ/ → /oˈne.o.me/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ɔː.né.o.mai̯/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /oˈne.o.mɛ/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /oˈne.o.mɛ/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /oˈne.o.me/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /oˈne.o.me/

### Verb

ὠνέομαι • (ōnéomai)
* to buy, purchase
    Synonym: πρίαμαι (príamai)
    Antonyms: πέρνημι (pérnēmi), πιπράσκω (pipráskō), πωλέω (pōléō)
** (in present and imperfect tenses) to offer to buy, deal for, bargain or bid for
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 339
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.1
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.69
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.165, (Compare 3.139, 6.121)
*** 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis, Apeglaukomenos 2.10, (Compare The Heiress 1)
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 741B
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.6
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 313D–E
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 123.21
*** 50 CE – 150 CE, Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 5.17
** (with dative) to buy from
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 815
*** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 1261
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.2.17
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.21
** (with genitive) to buy for such a price
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.6
*** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 360
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.6.24
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 5.11.31
** (with dative) to buy with
*** 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1.170
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.10.4
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.18
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.27, (Compare 5.5.14)
** (participial substantive, ὁ ὠνούμενος (ho ōnoúmenos)) the buyer, purchaser, owner
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 3.2, (compare Demosthenes 309.15, Plutarch, Cato the Younger 36)
*** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 7
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.242D
*** 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 109.30
*** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 902
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 9.11
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.457D
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 180.15
*** 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 336
* to farm public taxes or tolls, or rather to bid for them
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 17.28
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 108.26
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Ways and Means 4.19
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 435.7
* to buy off, avert by giving hush money
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 96.7
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 990.17
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 987.7
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Hermotimus 81
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Sertorius 6
** 170 CE – 240 CE, Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus 6.7
* to buy a person, to bribe
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 309.15
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 122.21, (Compare Plutarch, Philopoemen 15.322):ὠνεῖται καὶ διαφθείρει τινάςōneîtai kaì diaphtheírei tinás

#### Inflection
### References

* “ὠνέομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ὠνέομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ὠνέομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* G5608 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible