βοῶπις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βοῦς (boûs, “cow”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”) + -ις (-is, feminine adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bo.ɔ̂ː.pis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /boˈo.pis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βoˈo.pis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /voˈo.pis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /voˈo.pis/
Adjective
βοῶπις • (boôpis) f (genitive βοώπιδος)
- (Homeric epithet of Hera and women) ox-eyed; having large, full eyes
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.144–145:
- ἅμα τῇ γε καὶ ἀμφίπολοι δύ’ ἕποντο,
Αἴθρη Πιτθῆος θυγάτηρ, Κλυμένη τε βοῶπις·- háma têi ge kaì amphípoloi dú’ héponto,
Aíthrē Pitthêos thugátēr, Kluménē te boôpis; - with her followed two handmaidens,
Aethra daughter of Pittheus and ox-eyed Clymene
- háma têi ge kaì amphípoloi dú’ héponto,
- ἅμα τῇ γε καὶ ἀμφίπολοι δύ’ ἕποντο,
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.551:
- Τὸν δ’ ἠμείβετ’ ἔπειτα βοῶπις πότνια Ἥρη·
- Tòn d’ ēmeíbet’ épeita boôpis pótnia Hḗrē;
- Then ox-eyed queen Hera answered him:
- Τὸν δ’ ἠμείβετ’ ἔπειτα βοῶπις πότνια Ἥρη·
Inflection
Third declension of βοῶπῐς; βοώπῐδος (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | βοῶπῐς boôpis | ||||||||||||
Genitive | βοώπῐδος boṓpidos | ||||||||||||
Dative | βοώπῐδῐ boṓpidi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | βοώπῐδᾰ boṓpida | ||||||||||||
Vocative | βοῶπῐς boôpis | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- βοῶπις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βοῶπις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βοῶπις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βοῶπις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βοῶπις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- βοῶπις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- βοῶπις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- βοῶπις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers