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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

  • ἡνίκα δ̓ ἂν παρέλθῃ ἡ δόξα μου, καὶ θήσω σε εἰσ ὀπὴν τῆσ πέτρασ καὶ σκεπάσω τῇ χειρί μου ἐπὶ σέ, ἕωσ ἂν παρέλθω. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 33:22)
  • τὴν μέν γε πρώτην διαλέγουσαν τὴν ὀπὴν κατέλαβον ᾗ τοῦ Πανόσ ἐστι ταὐλίον, τὴν δ’ ἐκ τροχιλείασ αὖ κατειλυσπωμένην, τὴν δ’ αὐτομολοῦσαν, τὴν δ’ ἐπὶ στρούθου μίαν ἤδη πέτεσθαι διανοουμένην κάτω ἐσ Ὀρσιλόχου χθὲσ τῶν τριχῶν κατέσπασα. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Episode16)
  • ὀψὲ δέ ποτε ὀπήν τε εἶδεν ἀλώπεκι ἐσ διάδυσιν ἱκανὴν καὶ φέγγοσ δι’ αὐτῆσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 9:5)
  • ὁ οὖν κατιὼν κατακλίνασ ἑαυτὸν ἐσ τὸ ἔδαφοσ ἔχων μάζασ μεμαγμένασ μέλιτι προεμβάλλει τε ἐσ τὴν ὀπὴν τοὺσ πόδασ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐπιχωρεῖ, τὰ γόνατά οἱ τῆσ ὀπῆσ ἐντὸσ γενέσθαι προθυμούμενοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 39 17:1)
  • ξύλινον κατασκευάσασ θησαυρὸν καὶ κλείσασ πανταχόθεν ὀπὴν αὐτῷ μίαν ἤνοιξεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 9 201:1)

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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