ὄφις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis, *h₃égʷʰis (“snake”). Cognates include Sanskrit अहि (áhi), Avestan 𐬀𐬲𐬌 (aži-) and Old Armenian իժ (iž).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ó.pʰis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.pʰis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.ɸis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.fis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.fis/
Noun
ὄφῐς • (óphis) m (genitive ὄφεως or ὄφιος); third declension
- a serpent, snake
- serpentine bracelet
- a type of creeping plant
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὄφῐς ho óphis |
τὼ ὄφει tṑ óphei |
οἱ ὄφεις hoi ópheis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὄφεως toû ópheōs |
τοῖν ὀφέοιν toîn ophéoin |
τῶν ὄφεων tôn ópheōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὄφει tôi óphei |
τοῖν ὀφέοιν toîn ophéoin |
τοῖς ὄφεσῐ / ὄφεσῐν toîs óphesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὄφῐν tòn óphin |
τὼ ὄφει tṑ óphei |
τοὺς ὄφεις toùs ópheis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄφῐ óphi |
ὄφει óphei |
ὄφεις ópheis | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- δράκων (drákōn)
Derived terms
- ὀφίδιον (ophídion)
Descendants
- Medieval Greek: ὄφις (óphis), ὄφης m, ὄφιος m, ὀφίδιον n (ophídion), ὀφίδιν n, ὀφίδι n, φίδιν n, φίδι n
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[1], 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
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- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
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- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension