ὄπισθεν

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See also: όπισθεν

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὄπῐσθε (ópisthe)
ὄπῐθεν (ópithen), ὄπῐθε (ópithe)

Etymology

From ὀπῐ́σω (opísō) +‎ -θεν (-then).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.pis.tʰen/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pis.tʰen/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pis.θen/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pis.θen/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pis.θen/

Adverb

ὄπῐσθεν • (ópisthen)

behind, at the back
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.595
backwards
in the future, after, hereafter
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.362
1. yet to come
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.22

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “behind”): πρόσθεν (prósthen)

Derived terms

κατόπισθεν (katópisthen)
μετόπισθεν (metópisthen)
ὀπῐσθοφόρος (opisthophóros)
ὀπῐσθοφῠ́λᾰξ (opisthophúlax)

Descendants

Greek: όπισθεν (ópisthen)

References

“ὄπισθεν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὄπισθεν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ὄπισθεν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ὄπισθεν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ὄπισθεν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3693 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- after idem, page 17.
- back idem, page 57.
- behind idem, page 71.

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