Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

Adjective

εὐώνυμος • ‎(euṓnumos) m, f ‎(neuter εὐώνυμον); second declension

1. of good name, honored
2. having an auspicious name; fortunate, prosperous
3. (euphemistic)
   1. on the left side
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, A. 1.15

        ἐτάχθησαν οὖν ἐπὶ τεττάρων· εἶχε δὲ τὸ μὲν δεξιὸν Μένων καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ, τὸ δὲ εὐώνυμον Κλέαρχος καὶ οἱ ἐκείνου, τὸ δὲ μέσον οἱ ἄλλοι στρατηγοί.

        So they formed the line four deep: Menon and his troops held the right wing, Clearchus and his troops the left, and the other generals the middle.

   2. of bad omens
4. (astronomy) southern, southerly

Inflection

Synonyms

• ἀριστερός ‎(aristerós)

Antonyms

• δεξιός ‎(dexiós)

References

εὐώνυμος (A) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Noun

εὐώνυμος • ‎(euṓnumos) f ‎(genitive εὐωνύμου)

1. spindle-tree, Euonymus europaeus

References

εὐώνυμος (B) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• εὐώνυμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «εὐώνυμος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• εὐώνυμος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2176”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ill-omened idem, page 415.
  • inauspicious idem, page 426.
  • left idem, page 484.
  • sinister idem, page 778.
  • unfavourable idem, page 918.
  • unlucky idem, page 924.
  • unpropitious idem, page 928.