ἐξοπίσω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐξ- (ex-) +‎ ὀπίσω (opísō).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ek.so.pí.sɔː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈpi.so/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈpi.so/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈpi.so/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈpi.so/

Adverb

ἐξοπίσω • (exopísō)

(of place) backwards, back again
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.461
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.436
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 88
(of time) hereafter
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.35
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 500
- Tyrtaeus, Fragmenta 12.30
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.68
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Paean 2.27

Preposition

ἐξοπίσω • (exopísō) (governs the genitive)

behind
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.357
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 534

Further reading

“ἐξοπίσω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἐξοπίσω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἐξοπίσω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ἐξοπίσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἐξοπίσω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter

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