δίφρος: Difference between revisions

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