Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

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

  • ἀντίστροφον ὀψοποιίασ ἐν ψυχῇ, ὡσ ἐκεῖνο ἐν σώματι. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 113:1)
  • οὔτε γὰρ φιλοσοφίασ τῶν ὀψοποιίασ ὀνειδῶν οὐδὲν ἅψεται δήπουθεν, ἑώσ ἂν ἄλλο τι τὴν φύσιν ᾖ, οὔθ’ οἷσ ὀψοποιικὴν κακίζει τισ ἐξελέγχει ῥητορικὴν, ἑώσ ἂν μὴ δείξῃ τὴν ἀνάγκην, ὑφ’ ἧσ ταῦτα ὁμοίωσ ἔχει, πλὴν εἰ τοῦτ’ αὐτὸ ἱκανὸν ἡγήσατο εἰσ ἀνάγκην περιστῆσαί τινα τοῦ πῶσ ὀψοποιικὴ ῥητορικῆσ κεχώρισται λέγειν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:11)

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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