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πρόσωπον
πρόσωπον
Ancient Greek
Noun
πρόσωπον • (prósōpon) n (genitive προσώπου); second declension
- face, visage, countenance
- front
- mask
- character, part in a drama
- appearance
- person
Inflection
Second declension of πρόσωπον, προσώπου
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | πρόσωπον | προσώπω | πρόσωπᾰ |
Genitive | προσώπου | προσώποιν | προσώπων |
Dative | προσώπῳ | προσώποιν | προσώποις |
Accusative | πρόσωπον | προσώπω | πρόσωπᾰ |
Vocative | πρόσωπον | προσώπω | πρόσωπᾰ |
Notes: | There exist numerous lengthened plurals, such as προσώπατα (prosṓpata) and προσώπασι (prosṓpasi). |
Descendants
- English: prosopon, prosopopesis
- Hebrew: פרצוף partzúf
- Latin: prosōpographia
References
- 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- 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.
- πρόσωπον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press