ὀπτίων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin optiō.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /op.tí.ɔːn/ → /opˈti.on/ → /opˈti.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /op.tí.ɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /opˈti.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /opˈti.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /opˈti.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /opˈti.on/

Noun

ὀπτῐ́ων • (optĭ́ōn) m (genitive ὀπτῐ́ονος); third declension

1. (Byzantine) assistant, especially in a military sense, aide-de-camp

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ὀπτῐ́ων; τοῦ ὀπτῐ́ονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀπτῐ́ων ho optĭ́ōn	τὼ ὀπτῐ́ονε tṑ optĭ́one	οἱ ὀπτῐ́ονες hoi optĭ́ones
Genitive	τοῦ ὀπτῐ́ονος toû optĭ́onos	τοῖν ὀπτῐόνοιν toîn optĭónoin	τῶν ὀπτῐόνων tôn optĭónōn
Dative	τῷ ὀπτῐ́ονῐ tôi optĭ́onĭ	τοῖν ὀπτῐόνοιν toîn optĭónoin	τοῖς ὀπτῐ́οσῐ / ὀπτῐ́οσῐν toîs optĭ́osĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν ὀπτῐ́ονᾰ tòn optĭ́onă	τὼ ὀπτῐ́ονε tṑ optĭ́one	τοὺς ὀπτῐ́ονᾰς toùs optĭ́onăs
Vocative	ὀπτῐ́ον optĭ́on	ὀπτῐ́ονε optĭ́one	ὀπτῐ́ονες optĭ́ones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ὀπτίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀπτίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀπτίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὀπτίων in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften