- προνωπής
- προνωπήςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `inclined, bending forward, downcast, weak' (A., E.; on the meaning Muller Mnem. 55, 101 ff.).Derivatives: Beside it προνώπιος `outside, in front of the house', τὰ προνωπής -ια, -τὸ προνωπής -ιον `front, facade of a house' (E.), ἥρωες προνωπής -ιοι `Lares compitales' (D.H.); νωπέομαι (s.v.) with νενώπηται.Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: To νωπέομαι cf. πωλέομαι, ὠθέω; so prob. deverbative. From it perh., with verbal 2. member, προνωπής, προνώπιος. But προνώπια reminds strongly of the synonymous ἐνώπια; therefore with Eust., Bechtel Lex. s. νάπη and Ehrlich Betonung 126f. from *προ-ενώπια or only semantic assimilation? (Frisk suggest that προνωπής and νωπέομαι, which cannot be connected with ἐνώπιος, can be connected with νάπη `woodland vale, glen' (Bq, Bechtel l.c.) with ablaut as in κώπη : κάπτω, which I strongly reject.)Page in Frisk: 2,600
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.