ὀψάριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ὄψον (ópson, “delicacy”) +‎ -άριον (-árion, “diminutive suffix”).

Noun

ὀψάριον • (opsárion) n (genitive ὀψάριου); second declension

1. A little plate of food, in particular fish.
2. (Koine) A fish.
   • John 6:9:

     Ἔστιν παιδάριον ὧδε ὃς ἔχει πέντε ἄρτους κριθίνους καὶ δύο ὀψάρια· ἀλλὰ ταῦτα τί ἐστιν εἰς τοσούτους;

     There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these among so many?

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὀψάριον; τοῦ ὀψαρίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὀψάριον tò opsárion	τὼ ὀψαρίω tṑ opsaríō	τᾰ̀ ὀψάριᾰ tà opsária
Genitive	τοῦ ὀψαρίου toû opsaríou	τοῖν ὀψαρίοιν toîn opsaríoin	τῶν ὀψαρίων tôn opsaríōn
Dative	τῷ ὀψαρίῳ tôi opsaríōi	τοῖν ὀψαρίοιν toîn opsaríoin	τοῖς ὀψαρίοις toîs opsaríois
Accusative	τὸ ὀψάριον tò opsárion	τὼ ὀψαρίω tṑ opsaríō	τᾰ̀ ὀψάριᾰ tà opsária
Vocative	ὀψάριον opsárion	ὀψαρίω opsaríō	ὀψάριᾰ opsária
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ψάρι (psári)
• Mariupol Greek: псар (psar)

References

• G3795 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• “ὀψάριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀψάριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette