ὀπταίνω

ὀπτάζομαι, [voice] Pass.,

A to be seen, LXX Nu.14.14 :—so [full] ὀπτάνομαι, ib. 3 Ki.8.8, UPZ62.32 (ii B. C.), PTeb.24.5 (ii B. C.), Act.Ap.1.3, [Ar.Byz.] Arg.Ar.Pl.4, PMag.Par.1.3033, Corp.Herm.3.2:—an [voice] Act. [full] ὀπταίνω in Eust.069.33.

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `I watch, observe, view, contemplate' (Il.).

Other forms: Perf. w. innovated ipf. ὀπώπεον (Orph.) and aor. ὀπωπήσασθαι (Euph.). -- Beside fut. ὄψομαι, like the following forms often w. prefix, e.g. ἀπ-, ἐπ(ι)-, κατ-, προ-, ὑπ-, ὑπερ-, (Il.). Aor. pass. ὀφθῆναι (IA.) w. fut. ὀφθήσομαι, perf. midd. ὦμμαι (Att.). - As present to ὄπωπα is used a.o. ὁράω, s.v.

Derivatives: ὀπωπ-ή f. `observation, view, eyeball', pl. `eyes' (Od., A. R.), - ητήρ m. `scout' (h. Merc. 15; cf. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 108f., partly diff., Zumbach Neuerungen 7 w. n. 14, Benveniste Noms d'agent 39), - ια n. pl. (sc. ὀστέα) `the bones of the eyes' (Hp.). -- Several derivv., esp. w. τ-formant: 1. verbaladj. ὀπ-τός (Luc. Lex. 9, Ath.), earlier a. more usual from the prefixed verbs, e.g. ὕπ-, ἄπ-, κάτ-, πρό-οπ-τος ( προὖπτος) with ὑπ-, ἀπ-, κατ-οπτ-εύω, ὑποψ-ία etc. 2. nom. ag. a. instr.: a) ἐπ-, κατ- (h. Merc. 372), ὑπερ-, δι-όπ-της etc., also w. ἐπ-, κατ-, ὑπερ-, δι-οπτ-εύω (Κ 451 beside διοπ-τήρ 562); from there simplex ὀπτεύω (Ar. Av. 1061; Leumann Hom. Wörter 113); b) ὀπ-τήρ m. `scout' (Od.), also w. δι-, ἐπ-, κατ-; from there ὀπτήρ-ια n.pl. `gifts on seeing a person' (E., Call.); c) δί-, εἴσ-, ἔν-, κάτ-οπ-τρον n. (Alc., Pi., A.) w. derivv. 3. Adj.: ὀπτ-ικός `of sight', - ική f. `optics' (Arist.), older (Pl.) συν-, ἐπ-, ὑπερ-οπτ-ικός. 4. nom. actionis: ὄψ, ὀπ-ός f. `eye, face' (Emp. 88, Antim. 65), more often as 2. member, e.g. οἶν-οψ `winecoloured' (Hom.); ὄψις ( ἔπ-, πρόσ-, σύν-) f. `sight, vision, view, appearance' (Il.); ὄψανον n. `appearance' (A. Ch. 534; suffixcombination, Schwyzer 517). 5. on `eye': ὀπτ-ίλ(λ)ος m. see ὀφθαλμός (s.v.). 6. Verbs: ὀπτ-άνομαι (LXX, hell.), - άζομαι (LXX) `to appear, to become visible', prob. after αἰσθάνομαι (diff. Schwyzer 700 n. 2) resp. αὑγάζομαι; ὀπταίνω (Eust.; like παπταίνω a.o.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [775] * h₃ekʷ- `see'

Etymology: As basis of all these formen served an in its original function unclear word ὀπ- ('see' or `eye'), which is also contained in ὄπις, ὄσσε, ὄμμα, ὤψ (s. vv.); ὄσσε from *ὄκ-ι̯ε points to IE * h₃ekʷ-, which has several representatives in many IE languages; cf. on ὄσσε.

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