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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

  • Καὶ αὕτη ἔσται ἡ πτῶσισ, ἣν κόψει Κύριοσ πάντασ τοὺσ λαούσ, ὅσοι ἐπεστράτευσαν ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλήμ. τακήσονται αἱ σάρκεσ αὐτῶν ἑστηκότων αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τοὺσ πόδασ αὐτῶν, καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῶν ρυήσονται ἐκ τῶν ὀπῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν τακήσεται ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 14:12)
  • ἐντεῦθεν οὐκέτ’ αὐτὸν ἐξεφρίεμεν, ὁ δ’ ἐξεδίδρασκε διά τε τῶν ὑδρορροῶν καὶ τῶν ὀπῶν· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 3:22)
  • τὸν ὀρνιθευτὴν δὲ ἐν ἀργοῖσ μὲν καὶ ὄρεσιν μὴ κωλυέτω, ἐν ἐργασίμοισ δὲ καὶ ἱεροῖσ ἀγρίοισ ἐξειργέτω ὁ προστυγχάνων, ἐνυγροθηρευτὴν δέ, πλὴν ἐν λιμέσιν καὶ ἱεροῖσ ποταμοῖσ τε καὶ ἕλεσι καὶ λίμναισ, ἐν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ δὲ ἐξέστω θηρεύειν, μὴ χρώμενον ὀπῶν ἀναθολώσει μόνον. (Plato, Laws, book 7 225:3)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ τῇ συμβολῇ τούτου τε καὶ τοῦ ἄλλου ποταμοῦ [Ἐραννοβόα] τὰ Παλίβοθρα ἱδρῦσθαι σταδίων ὀγδοήκοντα τὸ μῆκοσ πλάτοσ δὲ πεντεκαίδεκα ἐν παραλληλογράμμῳ σχήματι, ξύλινον περίβολον ἔχουσαν κατατετρημένον ὥστε διὰ τῶν ὀπῶν τοξεύειν· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 72:1)

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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