ὄπιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ὀπός (opós, “juice”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion)

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ὄπῐον • (ópion) n (genitive ὀπῐ́ου); second declension

  1. poppy juice, opium

Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ὄπῐον; τοῦ ὀπῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ ὄπῐον
tò ópion		 τὼ ὀπῐ́ω
tṑ opíō		 τᾰ̀ ὄπῐᾰ
tà ópia
Genitive τοῦ ὀπῐ́ου
toû opíou		 τοῖν ὀπῐ́οιν
toîn opíoin		 τῶν ὀπῐ́ων
tôn opíōn
Dative τῷ ὀπῐ́ῳ
tôi opíōi		 τοῖν ὀπῐ́οιν
toîn opíoin		 τοῖς ὀπῐ́οις
toîs opíois
Accusative τὸ ὄπῐον
tò ópion		 τὼ ὀπῐ́ω
tṑ opíō		 τᾰ̀ ὄπῐᾰ
tà ópia
Vocative ὄπῐον
ópion		 ὀπῐ́ω
opíō		 ὄπῐᾰ
ópia
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • → Arabic: أَبْيُون‎ (ʾabyūn)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: ابیون‎ (ebyun)
  • → Latin: opium
  • → Middle Persian: [script needed] (apiyōn)
    • Persian: اپیون‎ (apiyūn), ابیون‎ (abiyūn), هپیون‎ (hapiyūn), هبیون‎ (habiyūn)
    • → Arabic: أَفْيُون‎ (ʾafyūn)
      • → Kurdish:
        Northern Kurdish: afyon
      • → Middle Armenian: աֆիօն (afiōn), աֆիոն (afion)
      • → Old French: affion
      • → Persian: افیون‎ (afyūn)
      • → Spanish: anfión
    • → Georgian: აფიონი (apioni), აფთიონი (aptioni)
    • → Old Armenian: ափիոն (apʿion)
  • → Sanskrit: अफेन (aphena)

References
  • ὄπιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὄπιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “ափիոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 365a
  • Ḥasandūst, Moḥammad (Winter 1997), “دربارهٔ چند لغتِ یونانیِ دخیل در زبان فارسی [On several Greek loanwords in Persian]”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature [Name-ye Farhangestan]‎, volume 8, archived from the original on 19 October 2013, retrieved 22 June 2014, page 92
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