ὠνεῖσθαι (oneisthai)

ὠνεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ὠνέομαι, meaning “buy”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 71 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Philopoemen 15.6: … ειν, ὧν προῖκα τῆς ἀρετῆς ἔξεστιν ἀπολαύειν, ἀλλὰ τοὺς πονηροὺς καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ καταστασιάζοντας ὠνεῖσθαι καὶ διαφθείρειν, ἵνα τῷ λαβεῖν ἐπιστομισθέντες ἧττον ἐνοχλοῖεν αὐτοῖς βέλτιον γὰρ εἶναι τῶν ἐχθρῶν παραιρεῖσθ …

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 70: … ξειν ἀποθέμενοι, πολλὰ θάπτουσιν ὅμοια καὶ πενθοῦσιν ἔπραττον. εἶθʼ ὥσπερ ἡμεῖς τὸν ὠνούμενον βιβλία Πλάτωνος ὠνεῖσθαί φαμεν Πλάτωνα, καὶ Μένανδρον ὑποκρίνεσθαι τὸν τὰ Μενάνδρου ποιήμαθʼ ὑποτιθέμενον, οὕτως ἐκεῖνοι τοῖς τῶν θεῶν …

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.