δίφρος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">seat, chair, chariot-board, chariot</b> (Il.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut.: <b class="b3">διφρίσκος</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">διφρίον</b> (Tim. Lex.), <b class="b3">διφρίδιον</b> (EM); - <b class="b3">δίφραξ</b> [[chair]] (Theoc.; familiar, Chantr. Form. 379), <b class="b3">δίφρακον</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Samos IVa; more s. Chantr. 384); <b class="b3">δίφρις ὁ ἑδραῖος</b>, <b class="b3">καὶ καθήμενος ἀεί</b>, <b class="b3">οἷον ἀργός</b> H.; cf. <b class="b3">τρόχις</b> [[runner]] a. o. - Adj. <b class="b3">δίφριος</b> (AP). - Denomin. <b class="b3">διφρεύω</b> <b class="b2">drive in a car</b> (E.) with <b class="b3">διφρευτής</b> <b class="b2">chariot-driver</b> (S.), <b class="b3">διφρευτικός</b> (Ephor.), <b class="b3">διφρεία</b> [[driving a chariot]] (X.); more common <b class="b3">διφρ-ηλάτης</b> (Pi.) with <b class="b3">διφρηλατέω</b> and <b class="b3">διφρηλασία</b>.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [228] <b class="b2">*du̯i-bhr-o-</b> <b class="b2">two-bearer</b><br />Etymology: Prop. "two-bearer", from <b class="b3">δίς</b> and <b class="b3">φέρω</b>, <b class="b3">δί-φρ-ο-ς</b>, originally a chair with two handels or a chair carried by two (on both sides), then the box of a chariot (cf. Fraenkel <b class="b3">Ἀντίδωρον</b> 282). - That <b class="b3">δι-</b> in <b class="b3">δίφρος</b> in Homer never makes position (Solmsen Unt. 211f.), may be due to dissimilation against the following labial <b class="b3">φ</b> (cf. from Skt. Debrunner IF 56, 171ff., Symbolae Hrozný 110f.) or to the fact that <b class="b3">δίφρος</b>, like <b class="b3">ἱδρώς</b> (Schwyzer 222 n. 5), came from the living language and was outside the tradition of the epic language.