ὀφθαλμός

Possibly a compound of ὄψ (óps, “eye”) +‎ θάλαμος (thálamos, “chamber”), but note the usual ancient Greek word for eye is the similar ὤψ (ṓps), with a long /o/. According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

ὀφθᾰλμός • (ophthalmós) m (genitive ὀφθᾰλμοῦ); second declension

1. eye

   Synonym: ὤψ (ṓps)

   1. (in the singular) eye of a master or ruler
   2. eye of heaven
   3. that which is dearest or best; light, cheer, comfort
   4. (botany) eye, bud (such as the eye of a potato)
   5. (surgery) surgical bandage covering one or both eyes
   6. (architecture, in the dual) disks forming the centers of the volutes of an Ionic capital
   7. (Byzantine) a kind of stone
   8. (Byzantine) water inlet of a mill
2. sight

   Synonyms: ὅρᾱσῐς (hórāsis), εἶδος (eîdos)

3. understanding

   Synonym: σῠ́νεσῐς (súnesis)

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• Greek: οφθαλμός (ofthalmós)
• → English: ophthalmo-
• → French: ophtalmo-
• → German: ophthalmo-

• “ὀφθαλμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀφθαλμός 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

• “ὀφθαλμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὀφθαλμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὀφθαλμός 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
• ὀφθαλμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὀφθαλμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3788 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ὀφθαλμός 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.
  • bud idem, page 102.
  • countenance idem, page 177.
  • eye idem, page 299.
  • face idem, page 299.
  • gaze idem, page 355.
  • glance idem, page 361.
  • look idem, page 498.
  • sight idem, page 774.
  • vision idem, page 954.
• 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