εὐώνυμος

From εὐ- (eu-, “well”) +‎ ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”). Euphemistically refers to "left" because bad omens came from the left side.

εὐώνῠμος • (euṓnŭmos) m or f (neuter εὐώνῠμον); 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.

        etákhthēsan oûn epì tettárōn; eîkhe dè tò mèn dexiòn Ménōn kaì hoi sùn autōî, tò dè euṓnumon Kléarkhos kaì hoi ekeínou, tò dè méson hoi álloi stratēgoí.

        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. ominous, ill-boding

      Synonym: ἀριστερός (aristerós)

      Antonym: δεξιός (dexiós)

4. (astronomy) southern, southerly

εὐώνῠμος • (euṓnŭmos) f (genitive εὐωνῠ́μου); second declension

1. spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus)

• → Translingual: Euonymus

• “εὐώνυμος (A)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ill-omened idem, page 416.
  • inauspicious idem, page 427.
  • left idem, page 484.
  • sinister idem, page 779.
  • unfavourable idem, page 918.
  • unlucky idem, page 924.
  • unpropitious idem, page 928.