ὀπτ-ήρ · opt-ēr — LSJ
one who looks, spies, spy, scout
one who looks or spies, spy, scout, Od. 14.261, A. Supp. 185, S. Aj. 29.
II one who has seen, eye-witness
one who has seen, Id. Ichn. 77 ; eye-witness, Antipho 5.27, X. Cyr. 4.5.17.
The corpus record
ὀπτ-ήρ
opter · ὁ
one who looks
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Where it lives
- Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
- Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- ὀπτῆρες · optēres Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 184–185
- ὀπτῆρας · optēras Odyssey 14.261
- ὀπτῆρας · optēras Odyssey 17.430
- ὀπτὴρ · optēr Sophocles, Ajax 29–30
- ὀπτήρ · optēr Sophocles, Ichneutae 83–85
- ὀπτῆρας · optēras Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.17 (DIORISIS sentence 2109)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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