εὐρύοπα

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁weru-wokʷ- (far-sounding), compare Vedic Sanskrit उरूची (urūcī́), an epithet of the Earth, from *h₁uru-wkʷ- with the zero grade of both elements.

The conventional English translation ‘far-seeing’ comes from an alternative interpretation of the etymology in which the second element is *h₃ekʷ- (eye, to see).

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

εὐρύοπᾰ (eurúopă) (invariable)

  1. far-sounding (epithet of Zeus)

Further reading

  • εὐρύοπα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • εὐρύοπα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • εὐρύοπα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press