σκολύβρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Furnée compares this word with σκολύφρα (skolúphra, “hard, harsh”) and suggests a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the variation -βρ-/-φρ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skoˈly.βra/ → /skoˈli.vra/

• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /skoˈly.βra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /skoˈly.vra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /skoˈli.vra/

Adjective

σκολύβρα • (skolúbra)

1. (hapax) (according to Hesychius of Alexandria:) sullen, sad

   Synonym: σκυθρωπή (skuthrōpḗ)

   • 5th century C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ:

     σκολύβρα· ἡ σκυθρωπή

     skolúbra; hē skuthrōpḗ

     skolúbra: one of sullen countenance

Further reading

• “σκολύβρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Hesychius' Lexicon: σ