Ancient Greek

Adjective

βοῶπις • ‎(boôpis) f, genitive βοώπιδος ‎(boṓpidos)

1. (Homeric epithet of Hera and women) ox-eyed; having large, full eyes
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.144–145

     ἅμα τῇ γε καὶ ἀμφίπολοι δύ' ἕποντο,
     Αἴθρη Πιτθῆος θυγάτηρ, Κλυμένη τε βοῶπις·

     with her followed two handmaidens,
     Aethra daughter of Pittheus and ox-eyed Clymene

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.551

     Τὸν δ' ἠμείβετ' ἔπειτα βοῶπις πότνια Ἥρη·

     Then ox-eyed queen Hera answered him:

Inflection

References

• βοῶπις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βοῶπις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βοῶπις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «βοῶπις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βοῶπις» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «βοῶπις» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• βοῶπις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Autenrieth