ἔποψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐπ- (ep-, “over”) +‎ ὄψῐς (ópsĭs, “view”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.pop.sis/ → /ˈe.pop.sis/ → /ˈe.pop.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.pop.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pop.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pop.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pop.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pop.sis/

Noun

ἔποψῐς • (épopsĭs) f (genitive ἐπόψεως); third declension

1. a view over, as far as the view from the temple reached
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.64
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 499C
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.71
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 22
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Lucullus 8
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 676
2. oversight, supervision
   • 300 CE – 500 CE, Stobaeus, Anthology 555.26

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἔποψῐς hē épopsĭs	τὼ ἐπόψει tṑ epópsei	αἱ ἐπόψεις hai epópseis
Genitive	τῆς ἐπόψεως tês epópseōs	τοῖν ἐποψέοιν toîn epopséoin	τῶν ἐπόψεων tôn epópseōn
Dative	τῇ ἐπόψει têi epópsei	τοῖν ἐποψέοιν toîn epopséoin	ταῖς ἐπόψεσῐ / ἐπόψεσῐν taîs epópsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἔποψῐν tḕn épopsĭn	τὼ ἐπόψει tṑ epópsei	τᾱ̀ς ἐπόψεις tā̀s epópseis
Vocative	ἔποψῐ épopsĭ	ἐπόψει epópsei	ἐπόψεις epópseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ἡ ἔποψῐς; τῆς ἐπόψεως (Attic)

Related terms

• ἐφορᾰ́ω (ephorắō)

References

• “ἔποψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔποψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔποψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • horizon idem, page 406.
  • ken idem, page 468.
  • prospect idem, page 653.
  • range idem, page 670.
  • sight idem, page 774.
  • view idem, page 951.
  • vision idem, page 954.
  • vista idem, page 955.