The corpus record

βού-πρῳρος

bouproros

with the forehead

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Where it lives

Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k

What it meant

βού-πρῳρος · bou-prōiros — LSJ

with the forehead, face of an ox

with the forehead or face of an ox, S. Tr. 13 (ap. Str. 10.2.19; Laur. Ms. βούκρανος) ; β. πρόσωπα Philostr. Jun. Im. 4.

II and one ox

β. ἑκατόμβη offering of 100 sheep and one ox, SIG 604.8 (Delph., ii B. C.), Plu. QConv. 2.668c, Hsch.; β. θυσία Delph. 3(2).66; ἔπεμψαν Κεῖοι δωδεκηΐδα β. ταῦρον Dürrbach Choix d’ Inscriptions de Délos p.183 (ii A. D.).

In the wild

βούπρῳρος · bouprōiros Sophocles, Trachiniae 9–12

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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