Socratos Sign in

ὀνομάσαι (onomasai)

ὀνομάσαι is an Ancient Greek form of ὀνομάζω, meaning “name, call by name; mention”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.30: … ρ φασιανὸν ὄρνιν ἢ ταώ. Ἔλεγε δὲ ὡς θαυμαστὸν πρόβατα μὲν ἕκαστον εἰπεῖν ἂν ῥᾳδίως ὅσα ἔχει, φίλους δʼ οὐκ ἂν ὀνομάσαι ὁπόσους κέκτηται· οὕτως ὀλιγώρως ἔχειν περὶ αὐτούς. ὁρῶν δʼ Εὐκλείδην ἐσπουδακότα περὶ τοὺς ἐριστικοὺς λόγους …

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 502: πλὴν ὀνόμασαι· τὸ δʼ ἔργον οὐκ ἔστιν τόδε.

All forms of ὀνομάζω (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.