ὅπλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from the primary word ἕπω (hépō, “I am busy”), unrelated to ἕπομαι (hépomai, “I follow”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ὅπλον • (hóplon) n (genitive ὅπλου); second declension

1. tool, instrument
2. (often in the plural) a ship's tackle, rope
3. (often in the plural) instruments of war: arms, armour, weapon
   1. specifically the large shield carried by hoplites
   2. (in the plural) place of arms, camp
4. (humorous) penis
5. a gymnastics exercise

Declension

Derived terms

• ὁπλίζω (hoplízō)
• ὁπλῑ́της (hoplī́tēs)
• ὁπλοφῠ́λᾰξ (hoplophúlax)

Descendants

• English: hopl-
• Greek: όπλο (óplo, “gun”)
• Albanian: aplladhe

Further reading

• “ὅπλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὅπλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὅπλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὅπλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ὅπλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὅπλον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3696 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.
  • arm idem, page 40.
  • weapon idem, page 970.