ὀπή, ἡ,
opening, hole, ὀπὰς γὰρ εἶχεν οὐκ ὀλίγας [τὸ τριβώνιον] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 715 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; a mouse's hole, [[ 5th c.BC: Sannyrio Comicus 8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of holes in the earth, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 559a4, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; in a door, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Asin.” 52 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; in a rock, [[ LXX.Exo.33.22 ] LXX]; of an orifice in the body, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.73; ἡ ὀπὴ τῶν ὤτων [prev. author] 2.84 (codex B). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 hole in the roof, serving as a chimney, ={κάπνη},{καπνοδόκη}, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 317 (Lyric poetry), 350; καὶ δι᾽ ὀπῆς κἀπὶ τέγους [prev. author] “fragment” 11, compare 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 4.11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II plural, in Architecture texts, holes in the frieze left to receive the beam-ends, [[ 1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 4.2.4 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; later, of windows, lights in doors, αἱ ὀ. τῶν τοίχων [[ 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus cited in 6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis de Caelo commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 710.21; σιδήρια ἐξ ὀπῆς “IG” 4.39 (Aegina, 5th c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III (ὄψομαι, ὄπωπα) sight, τοὶ μήτ᾽ ἀκουὰν μήτ᾽ ὀπὰν πεπαμένοι [[ 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 4.23. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]