ὀπτίων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin optiō.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /op.tí.ɔːn/ → /opˈti.on/ → /opˈti.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /op.tí.ɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /opˈti.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /opˈti.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /opˈti.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /opˈti.on/

Noun

ὀπτῐ́ων • (optíōn) m (genitive ὀπτῐ́ονος); third declension

1. (Byzantine) assistant, especially in a military sense, aide-de-camp

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ὀπτῐ́ων; τοῦ ὀπτῐ́ονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀπτῐ́ων ho optíōn	τὼ ὀπτῐ́ονε tṑ optíone	οἱ ὀπτῐ́ονες hoi optíones
Genitive	τοῦ ὀπτῐ́ονος toû optíonos	τοῖν ὀπτῐόνοιν toîn optiónoin	τῶν ὀπτῐόνων tôn optiónōn
Dative	τῷ ὀπτῐ́ονῐ tôi optíoni	τοῖν ὀπτῐόνοιν toîn optiónoin	τοῖς ὀπτῐ́οσῐ / ὀπτῐ́οσῐν toîs optíosi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ὀπτῐ́ονᾰ tòn optíona	τὼ ὀπτῐ́ονε tṑ optíone	τοὺς ὀπτῐ́ονᾰς toùs optíonas
Vocative	ὀπτῐ́ον optíon	ὀπτῐ́ονε optíone	ὀπτῐ́ονες optíones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ὀπτίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀπτίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀπτίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὀπτίων in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften