ἔποψις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἐπ- (ep-, “over”) + ὄψῐς (ópsis, “view”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.pop.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.pop.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.pop.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.pop.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.pop.sis/
Noun
ἔποψῐς • (épopsis) f (genitive ἐπόψεως); third declension
- a view over, as far as the view from the temple reached
- Herodotus, Histories 1.64
- Plato, The Republic 499C
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.71
- Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 22
- Plutarch, Lucullus 8
- Strabo, Geography 676
- oversight, supervision
- Stobaeus, Anthology 555.26
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ἔποψῐς; τῆς ἐπόψεως (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἔποψῐς hē épopsis | τὼ ἐπόψει tṑ epópsei | αἱ ἐπόψεις hai epópseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐπόψεως tês epópseōs | τοῖν ἐποψέοιν toîn epopséoin | τῶν ἐπόψεων tôn epópseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐπόψει têi epópsei | τοῖν ἐποψέοιν toîn epopséoin | ταῖς ἐπόψεσῐ / ἐπόψεσῐν taîs epópsesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἔποψῐν tḕn épopsin | τὼ ἐπόψει tṑ epópsei | τᾱ̀ς ἐπόψεις tā̀s epópseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἔποψῐ épopsi | ἐπόψει epópsei | ἐπόψεις epópseis | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- ἐφορᾰ́ω (ephoráō)
References
- “ἔποψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔποψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἔποψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- horizon idem, page 406.
- ken idem, page 468.
- prospect idem, page 653.
- range idem, page 670.
- sight idem, page 774.
- view idem, page 951.
- vision idem, page 954.
- vista idem, page 955.