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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós)
From earlier *ὁπός (*hopós), which underwent Ionic psilosis, from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷos (“juice, resin”). Cognate with Russian сок (sok, “juice”) and possibly Albanian gjak (“blood”), Latin sūcus (“juice”) (though Beekes doubts the pertinence of the Latin).[1]
Noun
ὀπός • (opós) m (genitive ὀποῦ); second declension
- juice, vegetable/plant juice
- (in particular) fig-juice (which can be used as rennet)
- Iliad, 5.902–904:
- ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ὀπὸς γάλα λευκὸν ἐπειγόμενος συνέπηξεν
- ὑγρὸν ἐόν, μάλα δ᾽ ὦκα περιτρέφεται κυκόωντι,
- ὣς ἄρα καρπαλίμως ἰήσατο θοῦρον Ἄρηα.
- Robert Fagles’ translation (1990):
- Quickly as fig-juice, pressed into bubbly, creamy milk,
- curdles it firm for the man who churns it round,
- so quickly he healed the violent rushing Ares.
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Further reading
- “ὀπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀπός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀπός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀπός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ὀπός 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fig idem, page 318.
- juice idem, page 465.
- “ὀπός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011