ὀπτάω,
perfect ὤπτηκα [[ 3rd c.BC: Euphro Comicus 1.5 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: irregular participle passive ὀπτεύμενος [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.55 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: Doric dialect present participle ὀπτᾶντες [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 164: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]future middle ὀπτήσομαι (in passive sense) [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Asin.” 31 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist passive, ὀπτηθῆναι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.27 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect passive ὤπτημαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 627: (ὀπτός (A), which see)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—roast, broil, κρέα ὤπτων [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.33, etc.; σπλάγχνα δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀπτήσαντες ἐνώμων 20.252; ὤπτησάν τε περιφραδέως 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.466, 2.429: also with _genitive_ _partitive_, ὀπτῆσαί τε κρεῶν] Refs 8th c.BC+] roast some meat, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.98; then in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.120, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1690, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.6, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; broil or fry fish, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “fragment” [same place], 5th c.BC: Crates Comicus 17, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; fry an egg, [[ “PLit.Lond.” 170 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; toast cheese, [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 150.2.] Refs 4th c.BC+] —Hence it appears that ὀπτᾶν was used of all kinds of cooking by means of fire or dry heat, opposed to ἕψω (boil in water), which never appears in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], whose heroes ate only roast meat, κρέα δὲ μόνον ὤπτων, ἐπεὶ ἕψοντά γ᾽ οὐ πεποίηκεν αὐτῶν οὐδένα [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 120. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 bake bread, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.47 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅκως ὀπτῷτο (variant{ὀπτῴη}) ὁ ἄρτος [[ [prev. author] 8.137, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.29; ὀπτᾶν πλακοῦντας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 507 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of bricks or pottery, bake, burn, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.179; καλῶς ὠπτημένη [χύτρα] 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 288d; ὁ ὀπτώμενος κέραμος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 383a21. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]