πρόσωπον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πρός (prós, “towards”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”). In light of Sanskrit प्रतीक (prátīka), this compound may have been directly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *prétih₃kʷo-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pró.sɔː.pon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpro.so.pon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.so.pon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpro.so.pon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpro.so.pon/
Noun
πρόσωπον • (prósōpon) n (genitive προσώπου); second declension
- face, visage, countenance
- front
- mask
- character, part in a drama
- appearance
- person
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ πρόσωπον tò prósōpon |
τὼ προσώπω tṑ prosṓpō |
τᾰ̀ πρόσωπᾰ tà prósōpa | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ προσώπου toû prosṓpou |
τοῖν προσώποιν toîn prosṓpoin |
τῶν προσώπων tôn prosṓpōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ προσώπῳ tôi prosṓpōi |
τοῖν προσώποιν toîn prosṓpoin |
τοῖς προσώποις toîs prosṓpois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ πρόσωπον tò prósōpon |
τὼ προσώπω tṑ prosṓpō |
τᾰ̀ πρόσωπᾰ tà prósōpa | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πρόσωπον prósōpon |
προσώπω prosṓpō |
πρόσωπᾰ prósōpa | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- αἰγοπρόσωπος (aigoprósōpos)
- ἱερᾱκοπρόσωπος (hierākoprósōpos)
- ἱπποπρόσωπος (hippoprósōpos)
- πολῠπρόσωπος (poluprósōpos)
- προσωπεῖον (prosōpeîon)
- προσωπικῶς (prosōpikôs)
- προσωποληπτέω (prosōpolēptéō)
- προσωποποιέω (prosōpopoiéō)
- προσωποποιία (prosōpopoiía)
- προσωποποιός (prosōpopoiós)
- τετρᾰπρόσωπος (tetraprósōpos)
Descendants
Further reading
- “πρόσωπον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πρόσωπον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πρόσωπον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πρόσωπον 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
- πρόσωπον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πρόσωπον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4383 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.
- countenance idem, page 177.
- disguise idem, page 233.
- expression idem, page 296.
- face idem, page 299.
- look idem, page 498.
- mask idem, page 516.
- physiognomy idem, page 611.
- visage idem, page 954.
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