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στενωπ-ός , Ion. and Ep. στεινωπός , όν, (στενός, ὀπή)
A.narrow, “στεινωπὸς ὁδός” Il.7.143, 23.416; “στενωπότεραι αἱ διέξοδοι τροφῆς” Hp.Vict.2.40; πόντος στειν. A.R.2.1191; “στειν. παλάμαι” Emp.2; ἐν οὕτω στενωπῷ in so narrow a space, D.S.31.9 codd. Phot.
II. mostly as Subst., στενωπός, ὁ （στενωπή, ἡ, Plu.Prov.1.61), narrow passage, strait, of the straits of Messina, “στεινωπὸν ἀνεπλέομεν” Od.12.234; “στενωποῦ πλησίον θαλασσίου” A.Pr.366; “ς. ἁλός” A.R.2.333, cf. 549 (so, of the Hellespont, “ς. ὕδωρ Ἕλλης” D.P.515); mountain-pass, defile, S.OT1399; lane, alley, Pherecr.108.4, Nicostr. Com.24, Thphr.Vent.29, D.S.12.10, Paus.5.15.2; ς. Ἅιδου the narrow entrance to Hades, S.Fr.832; of the blood-vessels, Pl.Ti.70b.
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.

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