Ancient Greek

Noun

φρήν • ‎(phrḗn) f ‎(genitive φρενός); third declension

1. (often in the plural) The midriff, stomach and lower chest or breast
2. The seat of emotions, heart; seat of bodily appetites such as hunger
3. The seat of intellect, wits, mind
4. will, purpose

Inflection

Derived terms

• -φρων ‎(-phrōn)
  • ἄφρων ‎(áphrōn, “foolish”)
  • περίφρων ‎(períphrōn, “very prudent”)
  • σώφρων ‎(sṓphrōn, “prudent”)
  • φρονέω ‎(phronéō, “think, be wise”)
• φρενῖτις ‎(phrenîtis)
• φρενόω ‎(phrenóō, “make wise”)

Synonyms

• (seat of emotions): θῡμός ‎(thūmós)

References

• φρήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φρήν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φρήν in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «φρήν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «φρήν» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• φρήν in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5424”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bosom idem, page 90.
  • brain idem, page 93.
  • breast idem, page 96.
  • comprehension idem, page 153.
  • fancy idem, page 306.
  • head idem, page 389.
  • heart idem, page 392.
  • imagination idem, page 416.
  • mind idem, page 530.
  • sanity idem, page 733.
  • sense idem, page 752.
  • soul idem, page 796.
  • thought idem, page 868.
  • understanding idem, page 913.
  • wit idem, page 983.