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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
- IPA(key): /eu̯.rý.wo.pa/ → /eˈβry.o.pa/ → /eˈvri.o.pa/
Adjective
εὐρύοπᾰ • (eurúopă) (invariable)
- 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