ὄφις
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ókʷʰis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis (“snake”). Cognates include Sanskrit अहि (áhi), Avestan 𐬀𐬲𐬌- (aži-) and Old Armenian իժ (iž).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ó.pʰis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.pʰis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ɸis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.fis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.fis/
Noun
ὄ
- a serpent, snake
- serpentine bracelet
- (astronomy) the constellation Serpens
- a type of creeping plant
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὄ ho óphis |
tṑ óphei |
hoi ópheis | ||||||||||
Genitive | toû ópheōs |
toîn ophéoin |
tôn ópheōn | ||||||||||
Dative | tôi óphei |
toîn ophéoin |
toîs óphesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | tòn óphin |
tṑ óphei |
toùs ópheis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄ óphi |
ὄ óphei |
ὄφεις ópheis | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Synonyms
- δράκων (drákōn)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Byzantine Greek: ὄφις (óphis), ὄφης m, ὄφιος m, ὀφίδιον n (ophídion), ὀφίδιν n (ophídin), ὀφίδι n, φίδιν n (phídin), φίδι n
- → Coptic: ⲟⲃⲓⲟⲛ m (obion)
Further reading
- “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[1], 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, →ISBN
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension
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