ὀπάζω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-. The term may have emerged from the affixation of -άζω (-ázō) to a noun *ὀπός (*opós) or *ὀπή (*opḗ).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Verb

ὀπάζω • (opázō)

  1. to join (someone to someone else) as a companion, guide, escort, etc.
  2. to cause to follow or accompany
  3. to bestow, lend, confer
  4. to follow hard upon, press upon
  5. (middle voice) to take (someone with oneself) as companion, guide, escort, etc.

Conjugation

Further reading

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ὀπάζω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1089
  • ὀπάζω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὀπάζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὀπάζω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ὀπάζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὀπάζω”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.