ὄψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὄψ (óps, “eye”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis). Diachronically from Proto-Hellenic *ókʷtis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ékʷtis, from *h₃ekʷ- (“eye, to see”).^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /óp.sis/ → /ˈop.sis/ → /ˈop.sis/

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

Noun

ὄψῐς • (ópsis) f (genitive ὄψεως); third declension

1. view
2. sight
3. face, countenance

   Synonym: πρόσωπον (prósōpon)

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄψῐς hē ópsis	τὼ ὄψει tṑ ópsei	αἱ ὄψεις hai ópseis
Genitive	τῆς ὄψεως tês ópseōs	τοῖν ὀψέοιν toîn opséoin	τῶν ὄψεων tôn ópseōn
Dative	τῇ ὄψει têi ópsei	τοῖν ὀψέοιν toîn opséoin	ταῖς ὄψεσῐ / ὄψεσῐν taîs ópsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὄψῐν tḕn ópsin	τὼ ὄψει tṑ ópsei	τᾱ̀ς ὄψεις tā̀s ópseis
Vocative	ὄψῐ ópsi	ὄψει ópsei	ὄψεις ópseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ἡ ὄψῐς; τῆς ὄψεως (Attic)

Derived terms

• ᾰ̓́ποψῐς (ápopsis)
• δῐ́οψῐς (díopsis)
• εἴσοψῐς (eísopsis)
• ἔποψῐς (épopsis)
• κᾰ́κοψῐς (kákopsis)
• κᾰ́τοψῐς (kátopsis)
• ὀπτῐκός (optikós)
• πρόοψῐς (próopsis)
• πρόσοψῐς (prósopsis)
• σῠ́νοψῐς (súnopsis)
• ῠ̔πέροψῐς (hupéropsis)

 

Descendants

• Greek: όψη f (ópsi)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὄψις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1139

Further reading

• “ὄψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄψις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὄψις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ὄψις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3799 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ὄψις 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.
  • apparition idem, page 34.
  • appearance idem, page 35.
  • aspect idem, page 44.
  • countenance idem, page 177.
  • eye idem, page 299.
  • eye-sight idem, page 299.
  • face idem, page 299.
  • feature idem, page 313.
  • figure idem, page 319.
  • form idem, page 338.
  • gaze idem, page 355.
  • ghost idem, page 358.
  • glance idem, page 361.
  • ken idem, page 468.
  • landscape idem, page 475.
  • look idem, page 498.
  • observation idem, page 567.
  • personal idem, page 608.
  • phantom idem, page 610.
  • physiognomy idem, page 611.
  • prospect idem, page 653.
  • scene idem, page 738.
  • scenery idem, page 738.
  • shade idem, page 760.
  • shape idem, page 762.
  • sight idem, page 774.
  • spectacle idem, page 800.
  • spectre idem, page 800.
  • spirit idem, page 802.
  • view idem, page 951.
  • visage idem, page 954.
  • vision idem, page 954.