(male)+member

μήδεα 1

Grammatical information: n. pl.

Meaning: `male sexual parts', ( φωτός) Od., Androm. ap. Gal., Call., also Ant. Lib.) μέζεα (Hes. Op. 512, Lyc.); μέδεα (Archil. 138); in Opp. (K. 4,441) metaph. `urine'; μέζος αἰδοῖον H.

Compounds: As 2. member in εὑμέζεος (cod. - μάξεως; leg. - μεζέος?) εὑφυης (cod. - εὶς; leg. - οῦς?) τοῖς αἰδοίοις H.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: The relation between μήδεα: μέζεα: μέδεα has not been explained. Wackernagel Unt. 227 n. 1 sees hesitatingly (after Nauck) in μήδεα a euphemistic replacement for the rough μέζεα, μέδεα; in μέζεα Schwyzer 208 with Bechtel and v. Wilamowitz assumes a spirantic pronunciation of the δ. -- Because of the meaning the etymol. explanation is difficult. Schwyzer l.c. connects μήδομαι, pointing to OHG gimaht f. `facultas, genitalia'. It would be then a euphemism identical with μήδεα `counsels, cares'. Thus (doubting) Spitzer BSL 40, 47 with P. Friedländer, with Lat. mentula (to mens??) as a very doubtful parallel. -- Not with Curtius 662, Fick 1, 507 a. o. to μαδάω `drip'; cf. μεστός. By WP. 2, 231 (Pok. 706) separated from μαδάω and combined only with Celt., e.g. MIr. mess (\< * med-tu-) `gland' assuming an allcomprising meaning `swell, swollen in the form of balls(?)'. The variation clearly points to a Pre-Greek word; on ε\/η cf. Fur. 258 n. 42; δ\/ζ is well known (Fur. 253ff.). This type of meaning fits well with a substratum word.

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `pardel, panther, leopard' (Il.); also as name of a fish of prey (Ael., Opp.; after the colour, Strömberg Fischn. 107), of a bird, perh. `red-backed shrike, Lanius' (Thompson Birds s.v.; Arist. [- λος], H.).

Compounds: Some compp., e.g. παρδαλή-φορος `borne by a p.' (S. Fr.11), καμηλο-πάρδαλις f. `giraffe' (Agatharch., LXX).

Derivatives: παρδαλ-έη, - έα, -ῆ f. `pelt of a panther' (Il.), - ια n. pl. `panthers' (Arist.), - ιδεύς m. `young p.' (Eust.; Bosshardt 79), - ε(ι)ος `belonging to the p., p.-like' (Arist.), - ώδης `p.-like' (Ath.), - ωτός `spotted like a p.' (Luc.). -- πάρδος m. `id.' (Ael. NA 1,31 [v.l. πάρδαλος]); as 2. member in λεόπαρδος, s.v. Formation like δάμαλις; further remote κνώδαλον, ἔταλον, ἴξαλος a.o.

Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Iran.X

Etymology: LW [loanword] from unknown oriental source. Here belong a.o. several Iranian words for `panther, leopard', e.g. Sogd. pwrđnk, Pashto pṛāng, NP. palang; from Iran. prob. Skt. (lex.) pr̥dāku- m. `id.'. With late and rare πάρδος agrees Lat. pardus (Lucan.), which can be a Lat. backformation from πάρδαλις (so πάρδος from Lat.?). From Lat. pardus, πάρδος Russ. pardus `panther'; besides also Russ. bars `id.' (from Turcotatar.). Details w. lit. in W.-Hofmann, Mayrhofer, Vasmer s. vv. and in Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 147. -- Cf. πάνθηρ. H's statement that πόρδαλις is the male, πάρδαλις the female, will be a sec. distinction.

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SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building

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The name of Le Corbusier is synonymous with the International style of modern architecture and city planning, one utilizing functionalist designs carried out in twentieth-century materials with modern methods of construction. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, born in the watch-making town of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Jura mountain region, was the son of a watch engraver and dial painter. In the years before 1918 he travelled widely, studying building in many countries. He learned about the use of reinforced concrete in the studio of Auguste Perret and about industrial construction under Peter Behrens. In 1917 he went to live in Paris and spent the rest of his life in France; in 1920 he adopted the name of Le Corbusier, one derived from that of his ancestors (Le Corbesier), and ten years later became a French citizen.

Le Corbusier's long working life spanned a career divided into three distinct parts. Between 1905 and 1916 he designed a number of simple and increasingly modern houses; the years 1921 to 1940 were ones of research and debate; and the twenty years from 1945 saw the blossoming of his genius. After 1917 Le Corbusier gained a reputation in Paris as an architect of advanced originality. He was particularly interested in low-cost housing and in improving accommodation for the poor. In 1923 he published Vers une architecture, in which he planned estates of mass-produced houses where all extraneous and unnecessary features were stripped away and the houses had flat roofs and plain walls: his concept of "a machine for living in". These white boxes were lifted up on stilts, his pilotis, and double-height living space was provided internally, enclosed by large areas of factory glazing. In 1922 Le Corbusier exhibited a city plan, La Ville contemporaine, in which tall blocks made from steel and concrete were set amongst large areas of parkland, replacing the older concept of city slums with the light and air of modern living. In 1925 he published Urbanisme, further developing his socialist ideals. These constituted a major reform of the industrial-city pattern, but the ideas were not taken up at that time. The Depression years of the 1930s severely curtailed architectural activity in France. Le Corbusier designed houses for the wealthy there, but most of his work prior to 1945 was overseas: his Centrosoyus Administration Building in Moscow (1929–36) and the Ministry of Education Building in Rio de Janeiro (1943) are examples. Immediately after the end of the Second World War Le Corbusier won international fame for his Unité d'habitation theme, the first example of which was built in the boulevard Michelet in Marseille in 1947–52. His answer to the problem of accommodating large numbers of people in a small space at low cost was to construct an immense all-purpose block of pre-cast concrete slabs carried on a row of massive central supports. The Marseille Unité contains 350 apartments in eight double storeys, with a storey for shops half-way up and communal facilities on the roof. In 1950 he published Le Modular, which described a system of measurement based upon the human male figure. From this was derived a relationship of human and mathematical proportions; this concept, together with the extensive use of various forms of concrete, was fundamental to Le Corbusier's later work. In the world-famous and highly personal Pilgrimage Church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp (1950–5), Le Corbusier's work was in Expressionist form, a plastic design in massive rough-cast concrete, its interior brilliantly designed and lit. His other equally famous, though less popular, ecclesiastical commission showed a contrasting theme, of "brutalist" concrete construction with uncompromisingly stark, rectangular forms. This is the Dominican Convent of Sainte Marie de la Tourette at Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle near Lyon, begun in 1956. The interior, in particular, is carefully worked out, and the lighting, from both natural and artificial sources, is indirect, angled in many directions to illuminate vistas and planes. All surfaces are carefully sloped, the angles meticulously calculated to give optimum visual effect. The crypt, below the raised choir, is painted in bright colours and lit from ceiling oculi.

One of Le Corbusier's late works, the Convent is a tour de force.

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,-ti 1. pair: bir çift ayakkabı a pair of shoes. 2. married couple. 3. pair of animals (consisting of a male and a female). 4. team (of two animals): bir çift öküz a yoke of oxen. 5. math. even (number). 6. mate, one member of a pair: Bu ayakkabının çiftini kaybettim. I´ve lost the mate for this shoe. 7. watchmaking, print. pincers. - atış sports two shots of the starter´s pistol (used to signal a false start). - atlı two-horse, drawn by two horses. -i bozmak to give up farming. - camlı pencere 1. double window (i.e. one fitted with a storm window). 2. double-glazed window. - çift in pairs, by pairs. - çubuk farming implements. - çubuk sahibi 1. farm owner. 2. (someone) who owns a farm. - dikiş 1. double seam. 2. slang repeater (of a class). 3. slang repeating a class. - dirsek U-joint. - düğmeli/önlü double-breasted. -e gitmek to go out to plow. - görme double vision, diplopia. - görmek 1. to see double. 2. colloq. to be drunk. - hatlı rail. double-track. - kanatlı kapı double door. - kanatlı pencere casement window (consisting of two sashes). - karinalı naut. double-keeled. -e koşmak /ı/ to hitch (an animal) to a plow team. - motorlu twin-engine. - sürmek to plow. - sütun print. double column. - taraflı defter tutma double-entry bookkeeping. - zamanı plowing time.