Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄνειρον ‎(óneiron)
• ὄνοιρος ‎(ónoiros) (Aeolic)

Noun

ὄνειρος • ‎(óneiros) m ‎(genitive ὀνείρου); second declension

1. dream
2. anything which is dreamlike, unreal, fleeting

Inflection

The masculine and neuter forms are sometimes used together, as well as a neuter third declension pattern, and are thus cited here together.

Descendants

• English: oneirology, oneironaut
• Greek: όνειρο ‎(óneiro)

References

• ὄνειρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄνειρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὄνειρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὄνειρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὄνειρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὄνειρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dream idem, page 251.