# ὄπιον
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

ὀπός (opós, “plant juice”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ó.pi.on/ → /ˈo.pi.on/ → /ˈo.pi.on/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ó.pi.on/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈo.pi.on/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈo.pi.on/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈo.pi.on/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈo.pi.on/

### Noun

ὄπῐον • (ópion) n (genitive ὀπῐ́ου); second declension
* poppy juice, opium

#### Descendants

* → Latin: opium, opion
** → Asturian: opiu
** → Catalan: opi
** → Czech: opium
** → English: opium
** → French: opium
** → German: Opium
** → Italian: oppio
** → Middle Dutch: opium
*** Dutch: opium
**** Afrikaans: opium
**** → Indonesian: opium
**** → West Frisian: opium
** → Portuguese: ópio
** → Romanian: opiu
** → Russian: о́пиум (ópium)
** → Spanish: opio
* → Middle Persian: [script needed] (apiyōn)
** Persian: اپیون (apiyôn), هپیون (hapiyōn)
** → Arabic: أَفْيُون (ʔafyūn), أَبْيُون (ʔabyūn) — obsolete
*** → Chinese: 阿芙蓉 (āfúróng)
*** → Kurdish
    Northern Kurdish: afyon, efyon
*** → Middle Armenian: աֆիօն (afiōn), աֆիոն (afion)
*** → Indonesian: apiun
*** → Madurese: ꦲꦕ꧀ꦕꦺꦴꦤ꧀
*** → Old French: affion
*** → Ottoman Turkish: آفیون (afyon), աֆիյօն (afiyon) — Armeno-Turkish
**** Turkish: afyon
**** → Hungarian: áfium
**** → Macedonian: афион (afion)
**** → Romanian: afion
**** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: афѝо̄н
    Latin script: afìōn
*** → Persian: افیون (afyun), اپیون (apyun), ابیون (abyun), هپیون (hapyun), هبیون (habyun), آپیون (âpyun), پیون (piyun)
**** → Assamese: আফিং (aphiṅ)
**** → Bengali: আফিম (aphim)
**** → Gujarati: અફીણ (aphīṇ)
**** → Hindustani:
    → Hindi: अफ़ीम (afīm), अफ़यून (afyūn)
****   * → Odia: ଅଫିମ (aphima)
****   * → Pashto: اپيم (apim), اپين (apin)
    → Urdu: اَفِیم (afīm), اَفْیُونْ (afyūn)
**** → Kannada: ಅಫೀಮು (aphīmu)
**** → Marathi: अफू (aphū)
**** → Tamil: அபினி (apiṉi), அபின் (apiṉ)
**** → Thai: ฝิ่น (fìn)
**** → Uyghur: ئەپيۈن (epyün)
**** → Uzbek: afyun
*** → Spanish: anfión
*** → Sundanese: apiun
*** → Swahili: afyuni
** → Georgian: აფიონი (apioni), აფთიონი (aptioni)
** → Old Armenian: ափիոն (apʻion)
*** Middle Armenian: ափիոն (apʻion), աբիոն (abion)
**** Armenian: ափիոն (apʻion)
* → Sanskrit: अफेन (aphena)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὀπός (> DER > 1. ὄπιον)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1093

### Further reading

* “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, Hračʻeay (1971) “ափիոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 365a
* Ḥasandūst, Moḥammad (1997 Winter) “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, archived from the original on 19 October 2013, page 92
* “ὄπιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011