ὄπις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The 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

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.pis/ → /ˈo.pis/ → /ˈo.pis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.pis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pis/

Noun

ὄπῐς • (ópis) f (genitive ὄπῐδος); third declension

1. vengeance of the gods for transgressing divine laws
2. care or favour of the gods
3. veneration, obedience, religious awe
4. pious care, zeal

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὄπῐς; τῆς ὄπῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ὀπιδνός (opidnós)
• ὀπίζομαι (opízomai)

 

References

• “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