A.“Ζεῦ” Il.16.241; εὐρύοπα Κρονίδης Orac. ap. Hdt.8.77, cf. h.Hom. 23.4; also as acc. (as if from nom. εὐρύοψ）“, εὐρύοπα Ζῆν” Il.8.206, al.; “εὗρεν δ᾽ εὐρύοπα Κρονίδην” 1.498, cf. 24.98; “Ζῆνα . . εὐρύοπα κρείοντα” h.Hom.23.2; later, of a mortal, κῆρυξ εὐ. BMus.Inscr.902 (Halic., iii B.C.). [α^ by nature, freq. α_ by position.] (Derived by the Greeks from ὄπ-, ὄψομαι, wide-eyed (cf. ἥλιος εὐ. Orph.L.701) or from ὄπ- 'voice' (cf. ϝέπος, ὄψ (A), vox), far-sounding, i.e. thundering (cf. “χορὸς εὐρύοπα κέλαδον φθεγγόμενος” Lyr.Adesp.93, cf. Sch. Il.1.498): prob. cogn. with Skt. urūc[imacracute] 'wide', epith. of Heaven-and-Earth, etc., fem. of uru-vyác- or *uru-ác-.)
εὐρύοπα^ , ὁ, Ep. epith. of Zeus, used as nom. in fifth foot, Od. 14.235, al., cf. Pi.Pae.6.134, 8.24; as voc. (only once in Hom.), εὐρύοπα
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
How to enter text in Greek:
