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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the radical *ὀπ- (from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-), the same root of ὀπή (opḗ, “hole, opening”). The word would properly mean "hole-making tool", rather than "provided with an eye". The nominative would then yield *ὄπεαρ (*ópear), replaced by the current form. The alternative form remains difficult to explain; folk etymology was assumed and dialectal origin may also be considered.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó.pe.as/ → /ˈo.pe.as/ → /ˈo.pe.as/
Noun
ὄπεᾰς • (ópeas) n (genitive ὀπέᾰτος); third declension
- awl
- Synonym: χήλευμα (khḗleuma)
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Further reading
- “ὄπεας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄπεας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄπεας 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