ὀπίσω
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.pí.sɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈpi.so/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈpi.so/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈpi.so/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈpi.so/
Adverb
ὀπίσω • (opísō)
- (of place) backwards
- back, back again, by the same way one took
- again
- (of time) hereafter
- following, yet to come
Derived terms
- ἐξοπίσω (exopísō)
Related terms
Descendants
- Greek: πίσω (píso)
Preposition
ὀπίσω • (opísō) (governs the genitive)
References
- “ὀπίσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀπίσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀπίσω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀπίσω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀπίσω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὀπίσω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3694 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.