βοῶπις

• βοώπης (boṓpēs) — masculine

Bahuvrīhi compound of βοῦς (boûs, “cow; ox”) +‎ ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”) +‎ -ῐς (-ĭs, feminine adjectival suffix), literally “ox-eyed”.

βοῶπῐς • (boôpĭs) f (genitive βοώπῐδος, masculine βοώπης)

1. (Homeric epithet of Hera and women) doe-eyed (having large, attractive eyes)
   • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.144–145:

     ἅμα τῇ γε καὶ ἀμφίπολοι δύ’ ἕποντο,
     Αἴθρη Πιτθῆος θυγάτηρ, Κλυμένη τε βοῶπις·

     háma tēî ge kaì amphípoloi dú’ héponto,
     Aíthrē Pitthêos thugátēr, Kluménē te boôpis;

     with her followed two handmaidens,
     Aethra daughter of Pittheus and ox-eyed Clymene

   • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.551:

     Τὸν δ’ ἠμείβετ’ ἔπειτα βοῶπις πότνια Ἥρη·

     Tòn d’ ēmeíbet’ épeita boôpis pótnia Hḗrē;

     Then ox-eyed queen Hera answered him:

   • Homeric Hymn 31. To Helios. 2-3:

     Καλλιόπη, φαέθοντα, τὸν Εὐρυφάεσσα βοῶπις γείνατο Γαίης παιδὶ καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος

     Kalliópē, phaéthonta, tòn Eurupháessa boôpis geínato Gaíēs paidì kaì Ouranoû asteróentos

     • Translation by Martin L. West

       Calliope: the shining one, whom mild-eyed Euryphaessa bore to the son of Earth and starry Heaven

• → Translingual: Boophis

• “βοῶπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βοῶπις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βοῶπις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• “βοῶπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βοῶπις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βοῶπις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “βοῶπις”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “βοῶπις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers