-ope

Appendix:Variations of "ope" English Etymology From en grc ὠπός, genitive of grc ὤψ eye. Suffix Eye Derived terms en Esperanto Etymology eo :from<unc> po :clip<unc> lt:dvejopas de:doppelt la:copula :af<unc> -o -e<ref:5 163 !!! Floriano Pessoa, 2005, Etimologio: Skizo pri la deveno de la vortoj de Esperanto > + 1 Vilborg notes that, in an earlier draft of Esperanto, Zamenhof used words like *duoe and *trioe with the same meaning as eo duope and eo triope and suggests he was considering a suffix *-oe with the same function as eo -ope has now, derived from chaining the substantive and adverbial suffixes eo -o and eo -e together. However, such "proto-collective numerals" had three vowels in a row, which makes for awkward pronunciation, and by Zamenhof's Unua Libro the suffix eo -ope was included instead. Vilborg posits that the "proto-suffix" *-oe became eo -ope through the influence of one or more of the other etyma above. Pronunciation ope Suffix eo suffix Marks collective numerals. eo tri three triope by threes, three by three Antonyms eo po Derived terms eo eo opo References