σιώπα (siopa)

σιώπα is an Ancient Greek form of σιωπάω, meaning “be silent”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive subjunctive or 2nd person singular present active imperative.

It can also be a form of σιωπή, “silence”.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.1.12: … ν βίου, ἄλλοι γνώμονʼ ἠθῶν, 〈τοῦ θʼ ὅλου〉 κόσμου τρόπιν ἑνός τε ξυμπάντων τε. φασὶ δʼ αὐτὸν ἐρωτηθέντα διὰ τί σιωπᾷ, φάναι ἵνʼ ὑμεῖς λαλῆτε. ἐπόθησε δʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ Δαρεῖος μετασχεῖν καὶ ἔγραψεν ὧδε πρὸς αὐτόν·

Euripides, Hecuba 533: σίγα σιώπα· νήνεμον δʼ ἔστησʼ ὄχλον.

New Testament, Mark 4.39: καὶ διεγερθεὶς ἐπετίμησεν τῷ ἀνέμῳ καὶ εἶπεν τῇ θαλάσσῃ Σιώπα, πεφίμωσο. καὶ ἐκόπασεν ὁ ἄνεμος, καὶ ἐγένετο γαλήνη μεγάλη.

All forms of σιωπάω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.