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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

  • τὰ δὲ κατὰ τὰσ κορυφὰσ ὀρέων καὶ φαράγγων ἀπορρῶγασ καὶ δένδρων ὀπὰσ καὶ τὰσ τούτων ἄκρασ ἐννοσσοποιησάμενα ἀποτίκτει καὶ τὸν προσιόντα κωλύει. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 14:16)
  • ὀπὰσ γὰρ εἶχεν οὐκ ὀλίγασ μὰ τὸν Δία. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:20)
  • τὸν δὲ χόον ὅντινα ἐκβάλλουσιν ἐκ τοῦ ὀρύγματοσ, ἐπὶ τὰ χείλεα ἑκάτερα τῆσ τάφρου ἐπιφορήσαντεσ ἀντὶ τείχεοσ διαχρέονται, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ χώματι τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλεοσ τοῦ ἔξω τῆσ τάφρου σκηνάσ σφιν ὀρυκτὰσ ποιέονται, καὶ διὰ τούτων ὀπὰσ ὑπολείπονται· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 13 3:1)
  • τὸ δὲ κοιταῖον αὐτῶν ὀπὰσ ἔχει δύο, τὴν μὲν πρὸσ νότον τὴν δὲ πρὸσ βορρᾶν βλέπουσαν· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 16 17:4)
  • ποιησάμενοι νεοττιὰσ οὐκ ἐπιβουλεύουσιν αὑτοῖσ οὐδὲ διαφέρονται περὶ τροφῆσ καὶ φρυγάνων, οὐδὲ μύρμηκεσ πλησίον ὀπὰσ ἔχοντεσ, ἐκ τῆσ αὐτῆσ ἅλω πολλάκισ εἰσφερόμενοι σῖτον, ἀλλὰ παραχωροῦσιν αὑτοῖσ καὶ τῶν ὁδῶν ἐκτρέπονται καὶ συνεργάζονται πολλάκισ, οὐδὲ ἑσμοὶ πλείονεσ μελιττῶν, ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν νεμόμενοι λειμῶνα, τῶν ἔργων ἀμελήσαντεσ περὶ τῶν ἀνθῶν τῆσ δρόσου διαφέρονται. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 71:1)

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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