εὐρύοπα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁weru-wokʷ- (“far-sounding”), compare Vedic Sanskrit उरूची (urūcī́), an epithet of the Earth, from *h₁uru-wkʷ- with the zero grade of both elements.

The conventional English translation ‘far-seeing’ comes from an alternative interpretation of the etymology in which the second element is *h₃ekʷ- (“eye, to see”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eu̯.rý.wo.pa/ → /eˈβry.o.pa/ → /eˈvri.o.pa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eu̯.rý.wo.pa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ewˈry.o.pa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /eˈβry.o.pa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eˈvry.o.pa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈvri.o.pa/

Adjective

εὐρύοπᾰ • (eurúopa) (invariable)

1. far-sounding (epithet of Zeus)
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.498
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.265
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.206
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.442
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.419
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.732
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.203
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.265
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.152
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.724
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.241
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.545
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.98
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.296
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.331
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.146
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.288
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.173
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.436
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.235
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.322
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.544

Further reading

• “εὐρύοπα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• εὐρύοπα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “εὐρύοπα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press