ὄψον

Ancient Greek

Noun

ὄψον • (ópson) n (genitive ὄψου); second declension

  1. delicacies, considered an integral component of an Ancient Greek meal; anything cooked/boiled and eaten with bread or sauce or as relish
    • Homer, Iliad 11.629-631
      αὐτὰρ ἐπ᾽ αὐτῆς
      χάλκειον κάνεον, ἐπὶ δὲ κρόμυον ποτῷ ὄψον,
      ἠδὲ μέλι χλωρόν,

Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ὄψον; τοῦ ὄψου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ ὄψον
tò ópson		 τὼ ὄψω
tṑ ópsō		 τᾰ̀ ὄψᾰ
tà ópsa
Genitive τοῦ ὄψου
toû ópsou		 τοῖν ὄψοιν
toîn ópsoin		 τῶν ὄψων
tôn ópsōn
Dative τῷ ὄψῳ
tôi ópsōi		 τοῖν ὄψοιν
toîn ópsoin		 τοῖς ὄψοις
toîs ópsois
Accusative τὸ ὄψον
tò ópson		 τὼ ὄψω
tṑ ópsō		 τᾰ̀ ὄψᾰ
tà ópsa
Vocative ὄψον
ópson		 ὄψω
ópsō		 ὄψᾰ
ópsa
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading
  • ὄψον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὄψον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ὄψον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὄψον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὄψον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ὄψον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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