ὀπτός

Unknown. Not related to πέσσω (péssō, “to soften, ripen; to cook, dress, bake”).

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ὀπτός • (optós) m (feminine ὀπτή, neuter ὀπτόν); first/second declension

1. (cooking) roasted, broiled, boiled
2. (cooking) baked
3. (metallurgy) forged, tempered
4. scorched

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From ὄπωπᾰ (ópōpa, “I have seen”) +‎ -τός (-tós, “-able”, adjectival suffix).

ὀπτός • (optós) m (feminine ὀπτή, neuter ὀπτόν); first/second declension

1. seen, visible

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• ὁρᾰ́ω (horáō)

• “ὀπτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀπτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὀπτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὀπτός 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
• ὀπτός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3702 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.
  • baked idem, page 59.
  • broiled idem, page 100.
  • burnt idem, page 105.
  • cooked idem, page 173.
  • roast idem, page 719.