ὄπις
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editThe connection with ὄψομαι (ópsomai), which is from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“to see”), can hardly be rejected. This implies an older meaning "sight, look, glance", whence the meanings "awe, veneration" and "vengeance, punishment".
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ó.pis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.pis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.pis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.pis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.pis/
Noun
editὄπῐς • (ópis) f (genitive ὄπῐδος); third declension
- vengeance of the gods for transgressing divine laws
- care or favour of the gods
- veneration, obedience, religious awe
- pious care, zeal
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὄπῐς hē ópis |
τὼ ὄπῐδε tṑ ópide |
αἱ ὄπῐδες hai ópides | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὄπῐδος tês ópidos |
τοῖν ὀπῐ́δοιν toîn opídoin |
τῶν ὀπῐ́δων tôn opídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὄπῐδῐ têi ópidi |
τοῖν ὀπῐ́δοιν toîn opídoin |
ταῖς ὄπῐσῐ / ὄπῐσῐν taîs ópisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὄπῐδᾰ tḕn ópida |
τὼ ὄπῐδε tṑ ópide |
τᾱ̀ς ὄπῐδᾰς tā̀s ópidas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄπῐς ópis |
ὄπῐδε ópide |
ὄπῐδες ópides | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “ὄπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄπις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄπις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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