- ὄφις
- ὄφις, -ιος, -εος, -εωςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `snake' (Μ 208).Compounds: As 1. member a.o. in ὀφι-οῦχος m. constellation, `snake-holder', Lat. Angui-tenens (Eudox., Arat.; Scherer Gestirnnamen 184 f.).Derivatives: ὀφ-ίδιον (ι und ῑ) n. dimin. (Att. inscr., Arist.); -ίασις f. (: *ὀφιάω) "snake-disease", name of a disease of the skin (Gal.); -ιώδης `rich of snakes, snaky' (Pi., Arist.); -ιόεις `rich of snakes' (Antim.), Όφιοῦς m. rivN, Όφιοῦσσα f. name of several islands (Antim., Arist.; Krahe Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 2, 233 f., 3,161), of a plant (Plin.); -ιακός `belonging to snakes', τὰ ὀφιακά booktitle (sch. Nic.); -ῑόνεος `snaky' (Opp.), \< *-ι-ίνεος differentiated? (Schwyzer 491 n.1; cf. Kretschmer Glotta 11, 228 w. lit.); -ίτης (λίθος) m., -ιῆτις πέτρη f. `serpentine' (Orph. L.; because of the colour, Redard 59), `erysipelas' (Gal.; Redard 104).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [not; -cf. 44] *h₃egʷʰi- `snake'Etymology: Prob. identical with Skt. áhi-, Av. aži- m. `snake': IE *ógʷhi-s; beside ich with e-ablaut Arm. iž, instr. -iw `id.' (with lengthening before the palatalized (before i) velar). The lengthning of the ὀ- in Μ 208 (after which Hippon. 49, 6 a.o.) is metr. condit.; s. Masson on Hippon. l.c. -- Diff. Specht KZ 64, 13 and Schwyzer 302. Cf. on ἔχις and ἔγχελυς w. lit.; also WP. 1, 63 ff. and Mayrhofer s. áhiḥ. Further hypothetical assumptions on very old crosses in Porzig Gliederung 202.Page in Frisk: 2,453
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.