The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπρόσωπον“face”
- English todaydiprosopus
From Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face”). By surface analysis, di- (“two”) + prosop- + Latin -us.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπρόσωπον all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.