πρόσωπον
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- face, visage, countenance
- front
- mask
- character, part in a drama
- appearance
- person
Etymology
Compound from Ancient Greek πρός (towards, to, with, forward, toward) + Ancient Greek ὤψ (eye, face, view, countenance)derived from Proto-Indo-European *prétih₃kʷo-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*prétih₃kʷo-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -opia English
- diprosopus English
- myopia English
- persona English
- prosobranch English
- prosopagnosia English
- prosopalgia English
- prosopography English
- prosopometamorphopsia English
- prosoponology English
- prosopopesis English
- persoona Finnish
- *pessona Latin
- persona Latin
- personalis Latin
- persōna Latin
- persōnālitās Latin
- prosōpographia Latin
- persona Italian
- persona Spanish, Castilian
- Αἰθίοψ Ancient Greek
- αὐλωπίας Ancient Greek
- βοῶπις Ancient Greek
- γλαυκῶπις Ancient Greek
- μέτωπον Ancient Greek
- μύωψ Ancient Greek
- προσέχω Ancient Greek
- προσδοκάω Ancient Greek
- προσκυνέω Ancient Greek
- προσωπεῖον Ancient Greek
- προσῳδία Ancient Greek
- πρός Ancient Greek
- πρόσθεν Ancient Greek
- χρυσώψ Ancient Greek
- ἐνώπιος Ancient Greek
- ἱέρᾱξ Ancient Greek
- ἱερακοπρόσωπος Ancient Greek
- ἱπποπρόσωπος Ancient Greek
- ἵππος Ancient Greek
- ὤψ Ancient Greek
- *h₃ókʷs Proto-Indo-European
- *préti, *per-, *próti Proto-Indo-European
- *prétih₃kʷo- Proto-Indo-European
- persona Polish
- प्रतीक Sanskrit
- kyklop Danish
- persone Old French
- persóna Icelandic
- प्रतीक Hindi
- απρόσωπος Greek (modern)
- μυωπία Greek (modern)
- προς Greek (modern)
- πρόσωπο Greek (modern)
- person Welsh
- persone Middle Dutch
- persona Latvian
- persan Old Irish
- persōn Middle High German
- פרצוף Yiddish
- פרצוף Hebrew (modern)
- persona Asturian
- persona Old Occitan
- parsone xno
- persónn-a Ligurian
- פרצופא Aramaic
- ܦܪܨܘܦܐ Classical Syriac
- persona Ladin
- *𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 Etruscan
- 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 Etruscan