ὀφρύς

• ὀφρῦς (ophrûs)

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]

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

1. eyebrow
2. brow of a hill

• As motion of the eyebrows is indicative of many emotions, ὀφρύς (ophrús) is often used in reference to various emotions.

• 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

• “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.