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ὀπός
ὀπός
Ancient Greek
Noun
ὀπός • (opós) m (genitive ὀποῦ); second declension
- juice, vegetable/plant juice
- (in particular) fig-juice (which can be used as rennet)
- Iliad, 5.902–904:
- ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ὀπὸς γάλα λευκὸν ἐπειγόμενος συνέπηξεν
- ὑγρὸν ἐόν, μάλα δ᾽ ὦκα περιτρέφεται κυκόωντι,
- ὣς ἄρα καρπαλίμως ἰήσατο θοῦρον Ἄρηα.
- Robert Fagles’ translation (1990):
- Quickly as fig-juice, pressed into bubbly, creamy milk,
- curdles it firm for the man who churns it round,
- so quickly he healed the violent rushing Ares.
- Robert Fagles’ translation (1990):
- Iliad, 5.902–904:
Inflection
Second declension of ὀπός, ὀποῦ
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ὀπός | ὀπώ | ὀποί |
Genitive | ὀποῦ | ὀποῖν | ὀπῶν |
Dative | ὀπῷ | ὀποῖν | ὀποῖς |
Accusative | ὀπόν | ὀπώ | ὀπούς |
Vocative | ὀπέ | ὀπώ | ὀποί |
References
- ὀπός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὀπός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀπός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ὀπός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ὀπός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- «ὀπός» 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.
- 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