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ὀψοποιία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀψοποιία

Structure: ὀψοποιι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from o)yopoio/s

Sense

  1. cookery, fine cookery

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

  • ἄλλον δέ ποτε τῶν συνδείπνων ἰδὼν ἐπὶ τῷ ἑνὶ ψωμῷ πλειόνων ὄψων γευόμενον, ἆρα γένοιτ’ ἄν, ἔφη, πολυτελεστέρα ὀψοποιία ἢ μᾶλλον τὰ ὄψα λυμαινομένη, ἢ ἣν ὀψοποιεῖται ὁ ἅμα πολλὰ ἐσθίων καὶ ἅμα παντοδαπὰ ἡδύσματα εἰσ τὸ στόμα λαμβάνων; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 14 8:1)
  • ἐροῦ νῦν με, ὀψοποιία ἥτισ μοι δοκεῖ τέχνη εἶναι. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 94:4)
  • ἐρωτῶ δή, τίσ τέχνη ὀψοποιία; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 94:5)
  • ταὐτὸν ἄρ’ ἐστὶν ὀψοποιία καὶ ῥητορική; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 95:1)
  • ὅτι Ἀρχέστρατοσ ὁ Συρακούσιοσ ἢ Γελῷοσ ἐν τῇ ὡσ Χρύσιπποσ ἐπιγράφει Γαστρονομίᾳ, ὡσ δὲ Λυγκεὺσ καὶ Καλλίμαχοσ Ἡδυπαθείᾳ, ὡσ δὲ Κλέαρχοσ Δειπνολογίᾳ, ὡσ δὲ ἄλλοι Ὅψοποιίᾳ ‐ ἐπικὸν δὲ τὸ ποίημα, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ ἱστορίησ ἐπίδειγμα ποιούμενοσ, Ἑλλάδι πάσῃ φησί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 71)

Synonyms

  1. cookery

Related

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

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