# ὄμνυμι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (“to swear”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /óm.nyː.mi/ → /ˈom.ny.mi/ → /ˈom.ni.mi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /óm.nyː.mi/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈom.ny.mi/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈom.ny.mi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈom.ny.mi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈom.ni.mi/

### Verb

ὄμνῡμῐ • (ómnūmĭ)
* to swear
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.175
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.279
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 282
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.108
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.331
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.288
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1284
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Halonnesus 10
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1377A.11
* to swear a thing, affirm or confirm by oath
** (followed by accusative)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.187
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1145
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.11
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.47
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 32
*** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 16
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.30
** (followed by infinitive) swear that one will...
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.373
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 623
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 941
*** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 188
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.76
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.321
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Philon 1
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.3.26
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.7.40
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 357
*** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 119
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.179
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 170
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.31
** (absolute)
*** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 215D
* (with accusative of person or thing sworn by)
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.271
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.585
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.40
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.7
** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 529
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1185
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 217
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.6.17
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 248
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 97
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.47
** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 119
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Symposium 32
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Otho 18
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 38.20.5
** 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 23:!6
** c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 816
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1241

#### Derived terms

* ἐνώμοτος (enṓmotos)
* συνόμνῡμι (sunómnūmi)

### References

* “ὄμνυμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ὄμνυμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ὄμνυμι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ὄμνυμι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ὄμνυμι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ὄμνυμι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* 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
* “ὄμνυμι”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011