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ὀπάων

opaon

fellow, companion

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Where it lives

Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Iliad 6 · 0.54/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

1. ὀπᾶων · opaōn — Beekes

ὀπᾶων, -ονος [m.] ‘fellow, companion’ (Il.). < GR, IE *sek”- ‘follow’> VAR ὀπέων, -ωνος (Hdt.). *DIAL Myc. PN 0-qa-wo-ni /"ok”awoni/ (Lejeune 1964: 87, Ruijgh 1967a: 256"). *ETYM The form *ond-fwv ‘belonging to the retinue’ is derived from *ond [6] ‘followers, retinue’, a verbal noun from » ἕπομαι. The psilosis is also found in » ὀπάζω. Cf. synonymous κοινών, -άν < -dwv. See Ruijgh Minos 9 (1968): 109-155. — [Beekes, s.v. ὀπᾶων, p. 1140]

2. ὀπάων · opaōn — Chantraine

ὀπάων, ὀπάζω, ὀπηδός : I. ὀπάων, -ονος est d’abord attesté en mycén. dans le nom d'homme, dat. ogawoni, cf. Chadwick-Baumbach 227, Lejeune, Mycenaean Studies Wingspread 87, Ruijgh, Minos 9, 1968, 131. Les formes du grec alphabétique sont ὀπάων (Hom., trag.), ὀπέων (Hdt.). Sens : «compagnon, camarade » notamment à la guerre; s'applique, p. ex. à Mérionès par rapport à Idoménée; cf. encore Bechtel, Lexilogus s.u., … — [Chantraine, s.v. ὀπάων, p. 824]

3. ὀπάων · opaōn — Frisk

ὀπάων, -ονος (ep. poet. seit Π.), ὀπέων, -wvos (Hdt.) m. "Gefährte, Begleiter’; myk. o-ga-wo-ni u.a. (nach Heubeck IF Frisk, griech. etym. Wörterbuch 26 402 ὅπεας---ὀπηδός 63, 116). — Aus öna-[F]w» “zur Gefolgschaft gehörig’, von *öna f. "Gefolgschaft’, Verbalnomen von ἕπομαι (zur Psilose 8. u. ὀπάξω). Vgl. das synonyme κοινών, -dv (< -ἀων). Bechtel Lex. s. v. (nach Fick 1, 141 n.a.), Schwyzer 521. Ältere Lit. (mit … — [Frisk, s.v. ὀπάων, p. 1373]

4. ὀπάων · opaōn — Frisk

ὀπάων. Zur Bed. in d. Ilias Stagakis Historia 16 (1967) 414-421. önndöög. Lazzeroni Studi Pisani II 627ff. (m. weiterer Lit.) will darin eine Kreuzung von ὀπάων und heth. hapatis sehen. önög. Hierher wohl noch mit Van Windekens Orbis 11 (1962) 181 und 15 (1966) 252 toch. A saku, B sekwe “Eiter’ aus idg. *sog*o-; zu kw für g* vgl. walkwe (5. λύκος Nachtr.). — [Frisk, s.v. ὀπάων, p. 2288]

5. ὀπάων · opaōn — LSJ

comrade, esquire

comrade in war, esquire, denoting the slight subordination in which one hero stood to another, as Meriones to Idomeneus, Il. 8.263, 10.58, etc. ; Phoenix to Peleus, 23.360 ; so, = ὑπασπιστής, Hdt. 5.111.

2 follower, attendant

generally, follower, attendant, B. 17.35, Hdt. 9.50, 51, A. Ch. 769, Supp. 492, 954, S. Ant. 1108 ; ὀ. μήλων a shepherd, Pi. P. 9.64 ; of a female, h.Cer. 440. —Cf. ὀπηδός.

II following

as Adj., following, ὀπάονι ῥιπῇ Opp. H. 5.489 ; ὀ. Νύμφην IG 14.1389i52.

In the wild

ὀπάονας · opaonas Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 769
ὀπάονας · opaonas Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 492–495
ὀπάονες · opaones Euripides, Electra 1135 (DIORISIS sentence 731)
ὀπάοσιν · opaosin Euripides, Electra *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 543)
ὀπάονας · opaonas Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 525)
ὀπάονας · opaonas Euripides, Ion 980 (DIORISIS sentence 645)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ὀπάων (scan p. 1140; entry #4598).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὀπάων (scan p. 824; entry #5968).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ὀπάων (scan pp. 1373-1374; entry #4293). Root candidates: *ona-.

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