- ὀπώρα
- ὀπώραGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `end of the summer, beginning of autumn' (Il.), `harvest, fruit' (posthom.; cf. on θέρος).Other forms: (ὁπ-), -η, Lac. (Alcm.) ὀπάρα (s. below).Compounds: As 1. member e.g. in ὀπωρο-φύλαξ m. `fruit watcher, garden watcher' (Arist.).Derivatives: 1. ὀπωρ-ινός `belonging to ὀπ.' (Il.; cf. Shipp Studies 77 w. lit.); 2. τὰ ὀπωρ-ιαῖα n. pl. `fruits' (Thphr.); 3. -ιμος `fructiferous' (Anon. ap. Suid.; after κάρπιμος, Arbenz 86f.); 4. -ιμεῖος `of fruit, belonging to fruit' (PLond.; uncertain); 5. -ικός `belonging to ὀπ.', also name of a medicine againt dysentery (Plin., Gp.); 6. Όπωρεύς m. surn. of Zeus in Akraiphia (inscr.; Bosshardt 44); hοπορίς f. PN (Lac. or Mess. inscr.), Hopora f. PN (Lat. inscr.). 7. ὀπωράριον = pomarium (Gloss.). 8. Denom. verb ὀπωρ-ίζω `to reap (fruit), to harvest in autumn' (IA.) ith -ισμός m. `vintage' (Aq.). -- Here also μετ-όπωρ-ον (μεθ-) `what is after ὀπώρα', φθιν-όπωρ-ον `when the ὀπ. ends', `(late) autumn' (IA.), hypostasis resp. governing comp. with thematic enlargement, cf. Schwyzer 442 :1c. From there μετ-, φθιν-οπωρ-ινός (IA.) a.o.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [343] *h₁e\/os-en-\/ -er- `harvest-time, summer'Etymology: The not rare, but unoriginal aspiration must have been taken from a word (ὥρα?) with closely related meaning. -- From *ὀπ-ο[σ]άρ-ᾱ contracted (from where Lac. ὀπάρα), abstractformation in -ᾱ from prepositional ὀπ(ι)- (s. ὄπισθεν) and a noun *ὄ[σ]αρ n., which is in the form of a regularly alternating n-stem retained in Balto-Slav. a. Germ., e.g. Serb.-Csl. jesenь, Russ. ósenь f. `autumn', Goth. asans f. `harvest, summer', OHG aran (to which Ernte); so prop. `the time following ὄ[σ]αρ, i.e. the summer following time'. Schulze Q. 475 (= WP. 1, 161f., Pok. 343), Benveniste Origines 19.Page in Frisk: 2,408
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