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boustrophedon

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13 lettersPronunciation /ˌbuːstɹəˈfiːdən/Part of speech nounSorted bdehnoooprstuStarts with BEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Writing in which alternate lines run in opposite directions.

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón, adverb, literally “turning like an ox”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “turning”) + -ηδόν (-ēdón, adverbial suffix), in reference to the back-and-forth course traced by boustrophedon text resembling the path taken by an ox ploughing a field.

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  • (Venetic apparently had both kinds of boustrophedon, either flipping the face of the characters when switching direction or else inverting them (Lejeune, 1974, pages 180-181).)

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