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ὠνίων (onion)

ὠνίων is an Ancient Greek form of ὠνέομαι, meaning “buy”.

It can also be a form of ὤνιος, “to be bought, for sale; selling?”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun or adjective.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 17.4: εἰξάντων δὲ τῶν πλείστων προελθόντες ὡς ἐνῆν μάλιστα τῷ δήμῳ διελέγοντο καὶ κατεπράϋνον, ἀπολυόμενοί τε τὰς διαβολὰς ἐπιεικῶς καὶ τῷ νουθετοῦντι καὶ δάκνοντι μετρίως χρώμενοι, περὶ δὲ τιμῆς ὠνίων καὶ ἀγορᾶς οὐδὲν διοίσεσθαι πρὸς αὐτοὺς φάσκοντες.

All forms of ὠνέομαι (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.