ὀκνῶ (okno)

ὀκνῶ is an Ancient Greek form of ὀκνέω, meaning “hesitate, shrink from”.

It can also be a form of ὄκνος, “hesitation, reluctance”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 82 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 25.65: ἂψ δʼ ὄκνῳ ποτὶ χεῖλος ἐλάμβανε μῦθον ἰόντα,

Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium 17: … ʼ ἀπιστῶν, εἶτα θαυμάζων· τέλος δὲ γελάσας πρὸς ἡμᾶς βούλομαι μέν ἔφη πρὸς τὸ παρὸν φράσαι τὸ προσηγγελμένον· ὀκνῶ δʼ ἀκούσας Θαλέω ποτʼ εἰπόντος ὅτι δεῖ τὰ μὲν εἰκότα λέγειν, τὰ δʼ ἀμήχανα σιωπᾶν ὑπολαβὼν οὖν ὁ Βίας ἀλλὰ κα …

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 65: Ὀκνῶ γάρ σοι εἰπεῖν, ὦ Ἑρμότιμε, ὅτι οὐδὲ τοῦτό πω ἱκανόν, ἀλλ’ ἔτι μοι δοκοῦμεν λεληθέναι ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς οἰόμενοι μέ …

All forms of ὀκνέω (conjugation 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.