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ὀπτός

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ὀπτός · optos — Chantraine

1. ὀπτός « rôti », notamment à la broche, opposé à ἑφθά (Od., etc.), «cuit », dit de pains, de poissons, etc. (ion.-att.), de poteries {Hdt., etc.), du fer (5. Ant. 475), en composition ἡμίοπτος, ἔξ- « bien cuit » (Hp.}, qui n'est pas nécessairement un dérivé inverse de ἐξοπτάω. Dérivés : ὀπταλέος « rôti, cuit » (Hom., Ath.}), à côté de ὀπτανός «rôti», opposé à ἑψανός (com., Arist., οἷς); il — 810 — peut s’agir … — [Chantraine, s.v. ὀπτός, p. 827]

2. ὀπτός · optos — LSJ

roasted, broiled, roast

roasted, broiled, σῖτός τε κρέα τʼ ὀπτά Od. 22.21, cf. 16.443 ; νῶτα βοὸς . . ὄπτʼ ἐν χερσὶν ἑλών 4.66 ; σάρκες A. Ag. 1097 ; ἑφθὰ καὶ ὀπτά boiled meats and roast, E. Cyc. 358 (lyr.), cf. Hdt. 2.77, Pl. R. 404c.

2 baked, baked, burned, parched, best dressed, done

baked, βοῦν καὶ ἵππον . . ὀπτοὺς ἐν καμίνοισι Hdt. 1.133 ; of bread, Id. 2.92 ; of fish, PCair.Zen. 66.8 (iii B. C.) ; also of bricks and pottery, baked, burned, Hdt. 1.180, 186, X. An. 2.4.12, PAmh. 2.99 (a)9 (ii A. D.), etc.; of soil, parched, X. Oec. 16.13: Sup. ὀπτότατος best dressed or done, Cratin. 143.

3 forged, tempered

of iron, forged, tempered, S. Ant. 475.

4 scorched

scorched, τὰ ὑπέρθυρʼ ὀπτά Herod. 2.65.

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Where it came from

  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ὀπτός (scan p. 827; entry #5984).

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