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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὄψ (óps, “eye”) + -σῐς (-sis). Diachronically from Proto-Hellenic *ókʷtis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ékʷtis, from *h₃ekʷ- (“eye, to see”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /óp.sis/ → /ˈop.sis/ → /ˈop.sis/
Noun
ὄψῐς • (ópsis) f (genitive ὄψεως); third declension
- view
- sight
- face, countenance
- Synonym: πρόσωπον (prósōpon)
Inflection
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References
Further reading
- “ὄψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄψις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὄψις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὄψις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3799 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ὄψις 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.
- apparition idem, page 34.
- appearance idem, page 35.
- aspect idem, page 44.
- countenance idem, page 177.
- eye idem, page 299.
- eye-sight idem, page 299.
- face idem, page 299.
- feature idem, page 313.
- figure idem, page 319.
- form idem, page 338.
- gaze idem, page 355.
- ghost idem, page 358.
- glance idem, page 361.
- ken idem, page 468.
- landscape idem, page 475.
- look idem, page 498.
- observation idem, page 567.
- personal idem, page 608.
- phantom idem, page 610.
- physiognomy idem, page 611.
- prospect idem, page 653.
- scene idem, page 738.
- scenery idem, page 738.
- shade idem, page 760.
- shape idem, page 762.
- sight idem, page 774.
- spectacle idem, page 800.
- spectre idem, page 800.
- spirit idem, page 802.
- view idem, page 951.
- visage idem, page 954.
- vision idem, page 954.