δίφρις ὁ ἑδραῖος

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `seat, chair, chariot-board, chariot' (Il.).

Derivatives: Diminut.: διφρίσκος (Ar.), διφρίον (Tim. Lex.), διφρίδιον (EM); - δίφραξ `chair' (Theoc.; familiar, Chantr. Form. 379), δίφρακον `id.' (Samos IV^a; more s. Chantr. 384); δίφρις ὁ ἑδραῖος, καὶ καθήμενος ἀεί, οἷον ἀργός 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 διφρ-ηλάτης (Pi.) with διφρηλατέω and διφρηλασία.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [228] *du̯i-bhr-o- `two-bearer'

Etymology: Prop. "two-bearer", from δίς and φέρω, δί-φρ-ο-ς, originally a chair with two handels or a chair carried by two (on both sides), then the box of a chariot (cf. Fraenkel Άντίδωρον 282). - That δι- 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.

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