hýbris

Ancient Greek

Unknown; possibly Pre-Greek, given its unusual shape and the lack of a convincing Indo-European etymology.^[1] Other proposed explanations include:

The first element ῠ̔́- (hú-) being from Proto-Indo-European *ud- (“outward, up”) (supported e.g. by Frisk^[2]) with the second element perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- (“heavy, strong”) (whence βαρύς (barús), βριαρός (briarós) etc.).^[3]
From Proto-Indo-European *(H)i̯oHgʷ-ri-, assuming a relation to ἥβη (hḗbē, “vigour of youth, sexual maturity, adolescence”).^[4] Beekes rejects this on the grounds that it would be expected to yield *ὠβρι- (*ōbri-).^[1]

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ῠ̔́βρις • (húbris) f (genitive ῠ̔́βρεως or ῠ̔́βριος); third declension(Epic, Ionic, Doric, Attic, Koine)