opisthosphendone
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Female head, in an opisthosphendone and antefixal ornament."
- "[…] her hair, which lightly floats back with her onward movement, is confined in an opisthosphendone and stephane."
- "It is characteristically broad in front and narrow behind, being thus opposite in its arrangement to the opisthosphendone."
- "Her hair is drawn back from the face in a wavy mass, and confined with an opisthosphendone knotted over the forehead."
- "The hair is arranged in loose flying locks, and she wears an opisthosphendone, a band or kerchief with which the hair was caught up behind, and an earring in the shape of a pendant rosette."
- "The mitre was of wool; the opisthosphendone was the part of it wrapping the back-hair; it was sling-shaped."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὀπισθοσφενδόνη (opisthosphendónē), from ὄπισθεν (ópisthen, “behind”) + σφενδόνη (sphendónē, “sling”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ὀπισθοσφενδόνη