ὀφρύς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὀφρῦς (ophrûs)
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *opʰrū́s, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs. Cognates include Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū́), Lithuanian bruvis, Tocharian B pärwāne, Old English brū (English brow).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.pʰry̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /oˈpʰrys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /oˈɸrys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /oˈfrys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /oˈfris/
Usage notes
As motion of the eyebrows is indicative of many emotions, ὀφρύς is often used in reference to various emotions.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ὀφρῡ́ς hē ophrū́s |
τὼ ὀφρῠ́ε tṑ ophrúe |
αἱ ὀφρῠ́ες hai ophrúes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ὀφρῠ́ος tês ophrúos |
τοῖν ὀφρῠ́οιν toîn ophrúoin |
τῶν ὀφρῠ́ων tôn ophrúōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ὀφρῠ́ῐ̈ têi ophrúï |
τοῖν ὀφρῠ́οιν toîn ophrúoin |
ταῖς ὀφρῠ́σῐ / ὀφρῠ́σῐν taîs ophrúsi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ὀφρῡ́ν tḕn ophrū́n |
τὼ ὀφρῠ́ε tṑ ophrúe |
τᾱ̀ς ὀφρῦς / ὀφρῠ́ᾰς tā̀s ophrûs / ophrúas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὀφρῡ́ ophrū́ |
ὀφρῠ́ε ophrúe |
ὀφρῠ́ες ophrúes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀφρύδιον (ophrúdion)
- χρῡ́σοφρυς (khrū́sophrus)
Descendants
- Koine Greek: ὀφρύδιον (ophrúdion) (from the diminutive)
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.
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