Etymology

unibrow

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Today it means: A pair of eyebrows which meet in the middle. Full definition →

English brow ← Latin ūni- ← Old Latin oinos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  3. Proto-Italic*oinos
  4. Old Latinoinos
  5. Latinūnus
  6. Latinūni-
  7. Englishuni-
  8. Englishbrow
  9. English todayunibrow

From uni- + brow.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.