Ὠνή

buying

Translated by John White6 Jun 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

3 notes · 24 words

Translation

[Meaning] marketing.1 Also [sc. attested is] w)nhsa/menos ["he having bought"], [meaning he] having marketed.2
Also [sc. attested is] w)/nhsen ["he/she/it profited"], [meaning] he/she/it benefited.3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὠνή· ἀγορά. καὶ Ὠνησάμενος, ἀγοράσας. καὶ Ὤνησεν, ὠφέλησεν.

Betacode
*)wnh/: a)gora/. kai\ *)wnhsa/menos, a)gora/sas. kai\ *)/wnhsen, w)fe/lhsen. 

Notes (3)

  1. 1i.e. (in each case) the general concept or process of this. ↩
  2. 2Aorist middle participle, masculine nominative singular; evidently quoted from somewhere. See further, next note. ↩
  3. 3This addition differentiates the third person singular, aorist indicative active, of the verb o)ni/hmi -- perhaps quoted from Homer, Odyssey 14.67 -- from the similar-looking but unrelated aorist middle participle (masculine singular nominative) of the verb w)ne/omai and the noun cognate with it, with which the entry has begun. LSJ entries for the two verbs at web addresses 1 and 2; and cf. omega 114. ↩

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Revision history7 revisions · last 14 Sep 2023
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. fixed links — Catharine Roth
  6. another keyword — David Whitehead
  7. added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  8. Translated — John White

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