ὄφις

From Proto-Hellenic *ókʷʰis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis (“snake”). Cognates include Sanskrit अहि (áhi), Avestan 𐬀𐬲𐬌- (aži-) and Old Armenian իժ (iž).

ὄφῐς • (óphis) m (genitive ὄφεως or ὄφιος); third declension

1. a serpent, snake
2. serpentine bracelet
3. (astronomy) the constellation Serpens
4. a type of creeping plant

• δράκων (drákōn)

• ὀφίδιον (ophídion)
• ὀφιοειδής (ophioeidḗs)

• Byzantine Greek: ὄφις (óphis), ὄφης m, ὄφιος m, ὀφίδιον n (ophídion), ὀφίδιν n (ophídin), ὀφίδι n, φίδιν n (phídin), φίδι n
  • Modern Greek: φίδι (fídi), όφιος m (rare, literary)
  • Mariupol Greek: фидъ (fið)
• → Coptic: ⲟⲃⲓⲟⲛ m (obion)

• “ὄφις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄφις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄφις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄφις 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
• ὄφις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὄφις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3789 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ὄφις 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.
  • serpent idem, page 755.
  • snake idem, page 788.
• 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