ὀπτίων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /op.tí.ɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /opˈti.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /opˈti.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /opˈti.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /opˈti.on/
Noun
ὀπτῐ́ων • (optĭ́ōn) m (genitive ὀπτῐ́ονος); third declension
- (Byzantine) assistant, especially in a military sense, aide-de-camp
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ὀπτῐ́ων ho optĭ́ōn |
τὼ ὀπτῐ́ονε tṑ optĭ́one |
οἱ ὀπτῐ́ονες hoi optĭ́ones | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ὀπτῐ́ονος toû optĭ́onos |
τοῖν ὀπτῐόνοιν toîn optĭónoin |
τῶν ὀπτῐόνων tôn optĭónōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ὀπτῐ́ονῐ tōî optĭ́onĭ |
τοῖν ὀπτῐόνοιν toîn optĭónoin |
τοῖς ὀπτῐ́οσῐ / ὀπτῐ́οσῐν toîs optĭ́osĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ὀπτῐ́ονᾰ tòn optĭ́onă |
τὼ ὀπτῐ́ονε tṑ optĭ́one |
τοὺς ὀπτῐ́ονᾰς toùs optĭ́onăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὀπτῐ́ον optĭ́on |
ὀπτῐ́ονε optĭ́one |
ὀπτῐ́ονες optĭ́ones | ||||||||||
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References
- “ὀπτίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀπτίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀπτίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀπτίων in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften