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

(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 • (ópĭs) f (genitive ὄπῐδος); third declension

vengeance of the gods for transgressing divine laws
care or favour of the gods
veneration, obedience, religious awe
pious care, zeal

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὄπῐς; τῆς ὄπῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄπῐς hē ópĭs	τὼ ὄπῐδε tṑ ópĭde	αἱ ὄπῐδες hai ópĭdes
Genitive	τῆς ὄπῐδος tês ópĭdos	τοῖν ὀπῐ́δοιν toîn opĭ́doin	τῶν ὀπῐ́δων tôn opĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ὄπῐδῐ têi ópĭdĭ	τοῖν ὀπῐ́δοιν toîn opĭ́doin	ταῖς ὄπῐσῐ / ὄπῐσῐν taîs ópĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὄπῐδᾰ tḕn ópĭdă	τὼ ὄπῐδε tṑ ópĭde	τᾱ̀ς ὄπῐδᾰς tā̀s ópĭdăs
Vocative	ὄπῐς ópĭs	ὄπῐδε ópĭde	ὄπῐδες ópĭdes
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