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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀψοποιία ὀψοποιίᾱ ὀψοποιίαι
Genitive ὀψοποιίᾱς ὀψοποιίαιν ὀψοποιιῶν
Dative ὀψοποιίᾱͅ ὀψοποιίαιν ὀψοποιίαις
Accusative ὀψοποιίᾱν ὀψοποιίᾱ ὀψοποιίᾱς
Vocative ὀψοποιίᾱ ὀψοποιίᾱ ὀψοποιίαι

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

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

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