ὀπίσω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ὀπίσσω (opíssō) – Ionic

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.pí.sɔː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈpi.so/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈpi.so/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈpi.so/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈpi.so/

Adverb

ὀπίσω • (opísō)

(of place) backwards
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.272
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.218
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.443
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.710
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.149
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.207
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 528A
- 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Collected Works 12.53
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Joel 2.20
1. back, back again, by the same way one took
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.326
  - 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 3.62
  - 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 25.74
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.62
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.120
2. again
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.14
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.92
  - 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 38
3. (with genitive) after
  - 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 4:19
(of time) hereafter
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.160
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 741
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 488
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.199
- 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1104
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.352
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.483
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.343
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.109
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.250
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.452
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1000A.30
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 488
1. following, yet to come
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.75

Related terms

κατόπιν (katópin)
ὄπισθεν (ópisthen)
ὀπίστατος (opístatos)
ὀψέ (opsé)

Descendants

Greek: πίσω (píso)

References

ὀπίσω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ὀπίσω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ὀπίσω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὀπίσω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ὀπίσω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ὀπίσω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3694 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- back idem, page 57.
- behind idem, page 71.

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