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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *opʰrū́s, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“eyebrow”). Cognates include Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū́), Lithuanian bruvis, Tocharian B pärwāne, Old English brū (English brow).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.pʰry̌ːs/ → /oˈɸrys/ → /oˈfris/
Noun
ὀφρῡ́ς • (ophrū́s) f (genitive ὀφρῠ́ος); third declension
- eyebrow
- brow of a hill
Usage notes
As motion of the eyebrows is indicative of many emotions, ὀφρύς is often used in reference to various emotions.
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Koine Greek: ὀφρύδιον (ophrúdion) (from the diminutive)
References
Further reading
- “ὀφρύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀφρύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀφρύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀφρύς 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
- ὀφρύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὀφρύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3790 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.