- ὀπή
- ὀπήGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `light opening, hatch, hole, hollow' (Ar., Arist.), `face' (Cerc. 4, 23; beside ἀκουά).Other forms: Dor. -α.Compounds: As 2. member in στε(ι)ν-ωπός `with a narrow opening, narrow' (Il.), πολυ-ωπός `having many holes, meshwork' (χ 386 a.o.; ω anal.-metr.), s. Sommer Nominalkomp. 1; also in ἐνόπαι, μετόπη a.o. (s. vv.); further also ἀνόπαια (s.v.)?Derivatives: ὀπαῖος `having an opening', of a tile (Diph. Com., Poll.), ὀπαῖον n. `skylight, chimney-flue' (Att. inscr., Plu.; cf. Bérard REGr. 67, 4); ὀπήεις `having a hole' (δίφρος, Hp.).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [775] *h₃ekʷ- `see'Etymology: If from ὀπ- `see', ὀπή must as verbal abstract have meant prop. "the sight" (thus as poet. incidental formation in Cerc., s. above); from there through concretisation "that, through which one sees", `see-, lightopening'. It can however also be extended from a root-noun, so prop. a nomen agentis or instr.; cf. ὄμμα.Page in Frisk: 2,402
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.