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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the radical *ὀπ- (from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-), the same root of ὄμμα (ómma, “eye”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.pɛ̌ː/ → /oˈpi/ → /oˈpi/
Noun
ὀπή • (opḗ) f (genitive ὀπῆς); first declension
- opening, hole, hollow
- Synonym: τρύπημα (trúpēma)
- (anatomy) orifice in the body
- hole in the roof, serving as a chimney
- (architecture) hole in the frieze left to receive the beam-ends
- sight
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Further reading
- “ὀπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀπή 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