- ἐπῴχατο
- ἐπῴχατοGrammatical information: v.Meaning: only Μ 340 πᾶσαι γὰρ ἐπῴχατο (scil. πύλαι) `they were all closed'.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [?? 1130?; wrong 73] *h₂u̯eig- `open'Etymology: Perhaps with Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1902, 737ff. = Kl. Schr. 1, 127ff. (Syntax 2, 183) 3. sg. med. plusquamperf. of ἐπ-οιγνύναι meaning `close' with aspiration of the velar (Schwyzer 771). On th meaning cf. esp. (την θύραν) προσέῳξεν `he shut' (LXX Ge. 19, 6); further Wackernagel l. c. where also on ἐπώχατο (from ἔχω, on the basis of less good reading ). - S. also Bechtel Lex. s. οἴγνυμι. Cf. DELG.Page in Frisk: 1,546
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.