ὀπίσω
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὀπίσσω (opíssō) – Ionic
Etymology
With the prefix *ὀπί- (*opí-), from Proto-Hellenic *opí, *opi-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁opí, a variant of *h₁epí (whence also ἐπί (epí), ἐπι- (epi-)). Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀃𐀠 (o-pi).
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.pí.sɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈpi.so/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈpi.so/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈpi.so/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈpi.so/
Adverb
ὀπίσω • (opísō)
- (of place) backwards
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.272
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.218
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.443
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.710
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.149
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.207
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 528A
- 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 12.53
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Joel 2.20
- back, back again, by the same way one took
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.326
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 3.62
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 25.74
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.62
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.120
- again
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.14
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.92
- 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 38
- (of time) hereafter
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.160
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 741
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 488
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.199
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1104
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.352
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.483
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.343
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.109
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.250
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.452
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1000A.30
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 488
- following, yet to come
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.75
Derived terms
- ἐξοπίσω (exopísō)
- ὄπισθεν (ópisthen)
- ὀπίστατος (opístatos)
Related terms
- κατόπιν (katópin)
- ὀψέ (opsé)
Descendants
- Greek: πίσω (píso)
Preposition
ὀπίσω • (opísō) (governs the genitive)
- after
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 4:19
References
- “ὀπίσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀπίσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀπίσω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀπίσω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀπίσω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὀπίσω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3694 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- back idem, page 57.
- behind idem, page 71.