# ὀνομάζω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ὀνυμάζω (onumázō) — Aeolic, Doric
* ὀυνομάζω (ounomázō) — Ionic

### Etymology

* PIE word
* *h₁nómn̥
From ὄνομᾰ (ónomă, “name”) +‎ -άζω (-ázō, denominative verb suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /o.no.máz.dɔː/ → /o.noˈma.zo/ → /o.noˈma.zo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /o.no.máz.dɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /o.noˈma.zo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /o.noˈma.zo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /o.noˈma.zo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /o.noˈma.zo/

### Verb

ὀνομάζω • (onomázō)
* to speak of by name, address by name
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.68
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.415
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.2
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.1
** (of things) to name, specify
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.515
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.449
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 160b
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 166c
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 201d
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 294
*** 380 BCE – 315 BCE, Theopompus Historicus, Collected Works 121
* to call one something
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 681
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 46
** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1193
** 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 87
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.6
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.44
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 238a
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1021
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 605
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3
** to nominate
* to name after
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 183
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 493c
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1036
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1105
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.5.12
* to say or give names
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 35
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 122
** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 158
** 490 BCE – 430 BCE, Empedocles, Collected Works 8.4
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.86
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.130
** 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Parmenides, On Nature 9.1
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.98
* to make famous
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against Lochites 19

#### Derived terms

* ἀντονομάζω (antonomázō)
* δῐονομάζω (dĭonomázō)
* ἐξονομάζω (exonomázō)
* ἐπονομάζω (eponomázō)
* κᾰτονομάζω (kătonomázō)
* μετονομάζω (metonomázō)
* πᾰρονομάζω (păronomázō)
* προσονομάζω (prosonomázō)

#### Related terms

* ἀνωνόμαστος (anōnómastos)
* ὀνομᾰσίᾱ (onomăsíā)
* ὀνομαστέον (onomastéon)
* ὀνομαστής (onomastḗs)
* ὀνομαστί (onomastí)
* ὀνομαστῐκός (onomastĭkós)
* ὀνομαστός (onomastós)

### Further reading

* “ὀνομάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ὀνομάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ὀνομάζω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ὀνομάζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* ὀνομάζω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ὀνομάζω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
* G3687 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible