ὀφρύς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀφρῦς (ophrûs)

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).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.pʰry̌ːs/ → /oˈɸrys/ → /oˈfris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.pʰry̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈpʰrys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈɸrys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈfrys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈfris/

Noun

ὀφρῡ́ς • (ophrū́s) f (genitive ὀφρῠ́ος); third declension

1. eyebrow
2. 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

Third declension of ἡ ὀφρῡ́ς; τῆς ὀφρῠ́ος (Attic)

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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀφρύδιον (ophrúdion)
• χρῡ́σοφρυς (khrū́sophrus)

 

Descendants

• Koine Greek: ὀφρύδιον (ophrúdion) (from the diminutive)
  • Byzantine Greek: φρύδιν (phrúdin), φρύδι (phrúdi)
    • Greek: φρύδι (frýdi)
    • Mariupol Greek: фридъ (frið)
  • Pontic Greek: οφρύδιν (ofrýdin), οφρύδ' (ofrýd'), 'φρύδιν ('frýdin), οφρύδι (ofrýdi), 'φρύδι ('frýdi), 'φρύδ' ('frýd')
    • → Laz: ოჶიდი (ofidi), ოჶრინდი (ofrindi) — Vizha, ოჶრიდი (ofridi) — Artasheni

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brow idem, page 101.
  • forehead idem, page 336.
  • front idem, page 346.