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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“soul, mind; innards, diaphragm”), whence Old Norse grunr (“suspicion”), or *bʰren- (“front edge”), whence e.g. Latin frōns (“forehead, front; character”), Old East Norse brant (“precipice”).[1] See also Latin rēn (“kidney”), Proto-Slavic *grěnь (“pus”), of disputed connection.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰrɛ̌ːn/ → /ɸrin/ → /frin/
Noun
φρήν • (phrḗn) f (genitive φρενός); third declension
- (often in the plural) The midriff, stomach and lower chest or breast
- The seat of emotions, heart; seat of bodily appetites such as hunger
- The seat of intellect, wits, mind
- will, purpose
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Further reading
- “φρήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φρήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φρήν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φρήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- φρήν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “φρήν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5424 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bosom idem, page 90.
- brain idem, page 93.
- breast idem, page 96.
- comprehension idem, page 153.
- fancy idem, page 306.
- head idem, page 389.
- heart idem, page 392.
- imagination idem, page 416.
- mind idem, page 530.
- sanity idem, page 733.
- sense idem, page 752.
- soul idem, page 796.
- thought idem, page 868.
- understanding idem, page 913.
- wit idem, page 983.