Ὀρφεύς
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain, but a link to Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos has been proposed, suggesting a common origin with Sanskrit अर्भ (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), and Old English ierfa (“heir”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /or.pʰěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /orˈpʰews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /orˈɸeɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /orˈfefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /orˈfefs/
Proper noun
Ὀρφεύς • (Orpheús) m (genitive Ὀρφέως); third declension
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References
Further reading
- “Ὀρφεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ὀρφεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ὀρφεύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
- Ὀρφεύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette