-ώνη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- -ιώνη (-iṓnē)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔ̌ː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.ni/
Suffix
-ώνη • (-ṓnē) f (genitive -ώνης); first declension (poetic, rare)
- Added to the names of people to form a feminine patronym: daughter of
- Ζεύς [Δι-] (Zeús [Di-], “Zeus”) + -ώνη (-ṓnē) → Διώνη (Diṓnē, “Dione”, literally “daughter of Zeus”)
- Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + -ιώνη (-iṓnē) → Καδμειώνη (Kadmeiṓnē, “daughter of Cadmus (Semele)”)
Declension
First declension of -ώνη; -ώνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | -ώνη -ṓnē | -ώνᾱ -ṓnā | -ῶναι -ônai | ||||||||||
Genitive | -ώνης -ṓnēs | -ώναιν -ṓnain | -ωνῶν -ōnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | -ώνῃ -ṓnēi | -ώναιν -ṓnain | -ώναις -ṓnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | -ώνην -ṓnēn | -ώνᾱ -ṓnā | -ώνᾱς -ṓnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | -ώνη -ṓnē | -ώνᾱ -ṓnā | -ῶναι -ônai | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- -ῑ́νη (-ī́nē)
Derived terms
Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ώνη
Related terms
- -ῑ́ων (-ī́ōn, masculine patronymic suffix)
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 845.6