ὄπιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ὀπός (opós, juice) + -ῐον (-ion)

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ὄπῐον (ópion) n (genitive ὀπῐ́ου); second declension

  1. poppy juice, opium

Inflection

Descendants

  • → Latin: opium
  • → Middle Persian: [script needed] (apiyōn)
    • Persian: اپیون (apiyūn), ابیون (abiyūn), هپیون (hapiyūn), هبیون (habiyūn)
      • → Arabic: أفيون (ʾafyūn)
        • → Kurdish:
          Northern Kurdish: afyon
        • → Middle Armenian: աֆիօն (afiōn), աֆիոն (afion)
        • → Old French: affion
        • → Persian: افیون (afyūn)
        • → Spanish: anfión
    • → Georgian: აფიონი (apioni), აფთიონი (aptioni)
    • → Old Armenian: ափիոն (apʿion)
  • → Sanskrit: अफेन (aphena)

References

  • ὄπιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὄπιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), ափիոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 365a
  • Ḥasandūst, Moḥammad (Winter 1997), دربارهٔ چند لغتِ یونانیِ دخیل در زبان فارسی [On several Greek loanwords in Persian]”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature [Name-ye Farhangestan], volume 8, page 92
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