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οἰωνόν (oionon)

οἰωνόν is an Ancient Greek form of οἰωνός, meaning “bird of omen; omen”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1044: ἧκε δʼ ἐπʼ οἰωνὸν ταχινὸν βέλος—αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 10.8: καὶ τὸν Αἰμίλιον ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ, φάναι, ὦ θύγατερ, καὶ δέχομαι τὸν οἰωνόν. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν Κικέρων ὁ ῥήτωρ ἐν τοῖς περὶ μαντικῆς ἱστόρηκεν.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.15.4: … ς καὶ καταβάλλει τὴν κύνα· ἐπεκθέουσιν οὖν τοῦ Ἱπποκόωντος οἱ παῖδες καὶ ῥοπάλοις τύπτοντες κατεργάζονται τὸν Οἰωνόν.

All forms of οἰωνός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.