Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó.pʰis/ → /ˈo.ɸis/ → /ˈo.fis/
Noun
ὄφῐς • (óphis) m (genitive ὄφεως or ὄφιος); third declension
- a serpent, snake
- serpentine bracelet
- (astronomy) the constellation Serpens
- a type of creeping plant
Inflection
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ὁ ὄφῐς ho óphis |
τὼ ὄφει tṑ óphei |
οἱ ὄφεις hoi ópheis |
τοῦ ὄφεως toû ópheōs |
τοῖν ὀφέοιν toîn ophéoin |
τῶν ὄφεων tôn ópheōn |
τῷ ὄφει tôi óphei |
τοῖν ὀφέοιν toîn ophéoin |
τοῖς ὄφεσῐ / ὄφεσῐν toîs óphesi(n) |
τὸν ὄφῐν tòn óphin |
τὼ ὄφει tṑ óphei |
τοὺς ὄφεις toùs ópheis |
ὄφῐ óphi |
ὄφει óphei |
ὄφεις ópheis |
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Descendants
- 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)
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, 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