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ὀπη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀπη

Structure: ὀπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. an opening, hole
  2. a hole in the roof

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὕτω γὲ τοι καὶ τοῦ Νέστοροσ ὑμῖν ἀπορρεῖ ἐκ τῆσ γλώττησ τὸ μέλι, καὶ οἱ ἀγορηταὶ τῶν Τρώων τὴν ὄπα ἀφιᾶσιν εὐανθῆ τινα λείρια γὰρ καλεῖται, εἴ γε μέμνημαι, τὰ ἄνθη. (Lucian, Hercules, 4:8)
  • ταῦτα δέδοιχ’ ὅπᾳ τελεῖται. (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 18 2:6)
  • αἰνῶ δ’ ὃσ ἡμῖν βίοτον ἐκ πεφυρμένου καὶ θηριώδουσ θεῶν διεσταθμήσατο, πρῶτον μὲν ἐνθεὶσ σύνεσιν, εἶτα δ’ ἄγγελον γλῶσσαν λόγων δούσ, ὥστε γιγνώσκειν ὄπα, τροφήν τε καρποῦ τῇ τροφῇ τ’ ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ σταγόνασ ὑδρηλάσ, ὡσ τά γ’ ἐκ γαίασ τρέφῃ ἄρδῃ τε νηδύν· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 3:5)
  • οἳ δ’, ὡσ τάχιστ’ ἤκουσαν ὑστάτην ὄπα, μεθῆκαν, οὗπερ καὶ μέγιστον ἦν κράτοσ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:2)
  • ἐγὼν δὲ καρυξῶ Δικαιόπολιν ὅπᾳ· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric10)

Synonyms

  1. an opening

  2. a hole in the roof

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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