curae edaces

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `pain, torment, harm, sorrow' (Il.).

Other forms: mostly pl. - αι.

Compounds: As 2. member, e.g. περι-ώδυνος `very sore, painful' (Hp., Att.; - ω- comp. lengthening with περιωδυν-ία f. (Hp., Pl.), - έω, also (after ὀδυνάω) - άω (medic.); rarely as 1. member as in ὀδυνή-φατος ( ὀδυνήφατα φάρμακα Ε 401 = 900, also ὀ-ον ῥίζαν Λ 847; after this Orph. L. 345, 753) `pain-killing, -stilling', poet. incidental formation after ἀρηΐ-φατος a.o., but with remarkable active meaning (cf. Chantraine Sprache 1,145; after Risch $ 73 a prop. a consonantstem).

Derivatives: ὀδυν-ηρός, Dor. - ᾶρός `dolorous, sorrowful' (Pi., Att.), - ωδῶς adv. `sorrowfully' (Gal.), - αίτερος `more painful' (Hp.) as from *ὀδυναῖος after σχολαίτερος (: [ σχολαῖος:] σχολή) a.o. (Schwyzer 534); ὀδυνάω, - άομαι, rarely with ἐξ-, κατ-, `to hurt, to grieve; to be hurt, to suffer pain' (IA.) with ὀδυνήματα pl. `pains' (Hp.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [289; to be corrected] * h₃dwon- `pain'

Etymology: Beside IA. ὀδύνη (orig. pl. tant. ?; Witte Glotta 2, 18f.) stands Aeol. (Greg. Cor. 597) ἐδύνας (acc. pl.); the vowel change can go back on old ablaut or on vowel-assimilation (ε \> ο before υ; cf. Schwyzer 255). Both forms are ᾱ-enlargements of a verbal noun in -u̯en-: - un- from ἐδ- `eat' ( curae edaces Hor., Lith. ėdžiótis `trouble oneself' beside ēdžióti `devour, bite', to ė́sti `eat'; on it Fraenkel Wb. s. v.), to which the ablauting -u̯er-: -u̯r̥-: - ur- in εἶδαρ \> *ἔδ-Ϝαρ `eating, food' (s. on ἔδω, with Skt. cognates) and ὀδύρομαι (s. v.). A further representative of this noun is Arm. erkn, gen. erkan `birth-pain, heavy pain' from *ed-u̯ōn or *ed-u̯ēn, s. Frisk Etyma Armen. 11 ff. w. details. -- Not wit L. Meyer 1, 523 f. and Prellwitz to δύη. However the initial was h₃-, as in ὀδών (s.v.); cf. Beekes in Kortlandt, Armeniaca Cf. ὠδίς.

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