Διόσ-δοτος

Grammatical information: m.

Other forms: Boeot. Lac. etc. Δεύς, voc. Ζεῦ, gen. Δι(Ϝ)ός, dat. (loc.) Δι(Ϝ)ί, dat. also ΔιϜεί (e. g. ΔιϜεί-φιλος;), acc. Ζῆν, since Hom. also Δί-α, Ζῆν-α with Ζην-ός, -ί; nom. Ζήν (A. Supp. 162 [lyr.]; or voc.?), Ζάν (Pythag., Ar.), Ζάς (Pherec. Syr.), gen. Ζανός (inscr. Chios IV^a [? ] a. o.); note Δᾶν (Theocr. 4, 17); more forms in Schwyzer 576f., Leumann Hom. Wörter 288ff. and the dict.

Dialectal forms: Myc. dat. diwe \/diwei\/

Compounds: As 1. member in univerbations like Διόσ-κουροι (gen.; also Διεσ-κουρίδου [Priene a. o.]), ΔιϜεί-φιλος (dat.), stemform e. g. in διο-γενής; also Ζηνό-δοτος (for Διόσ-δοτος) a. o.; as 2. member in ἔνδιος, εὑδία, s. vv.; cf. also αὑτόδιον.

Derivatives: δῖος, s. v.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [184] * dieu- `Zeus'

Etymology: Ols name of heaven, of the god of heaven, of the day, preserved esp. in Sanskrit, Greek and Italic, and prob. in Hittite, with several related forms: Ζεύς = Skt. dyáuḥ `(god of) heaven, day', Lat. Iovis and pob. in nu-diūs tertius `(it is) now the third day', i. e. `the day before yesterday', IE *d(i)i̯ēus; also Hitt. * šiuš, šiun(i)- `god'; Ζεῦ πάτερ = Lat. Iūpiter, Ζῆν = Skt. dyā́m, Lat. diem (with new nom. diēs, Diēspiter; cf. also Illyr. Δειπάτυρος); the other oblique cases, ΔιϜ-ός, - εί, -ί, Δία agree with Skt. diváḥ, divé, diví, dívam (partly parallell innovations). New in Greek are Ζῆν-α (after Δί-α) with Ζηνός, -ί, which contains the old acc. *Di̯ē(u)m with early loss of the u̯ seen also in Skt. Dyām; not to IE * din- `day' in Lat. nun-dinae `market-day', Skt. madhyán-dinam `midday' a. o. (after Kretschmer Glotta 14, 303f. also Τιν-δαρίδαι and 30, 93ff). - The α in Ζάς, Ζάν, Ζανός was spread from Elean Olympia, where η became ᾱ, s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 288ff. (after Kretschmer Glotta 17, 197) and Fraenkel Gnomon 23, 373. - It is generally assumed that IE *d(i)i̯ēus is an agent noon of the verb seen in Skt. dī́-de-ti `shine', gr. δέατο (s. v.) meaning `shine, glow, light'; *d(i)i̯ēus prop. "the shining, gleaming". Objections in Wackernagel BerlAkSb. 1918, 396ff. (= Kl. Schr. 1, 315ff.), Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1, 391. Beside Ζεύς etc. there is an old appellative for `god' in Skt. deváḥ = Lat. deus = Lith. diẽvas a. o., IE *deiu̯os; prop. "the heavenly, caelestis" as deriv. from the noun for `heaven'. - Except Bq see W.-Hofmann s. diēs, Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. diẽvas, Wackernagel-Debrunner Aind. Gramm. 3, 219ff., Mayrhofer EWAia. s. dyáuh, Benveniste Origines 59f, 166. (Cf. also Τινδαρίδαι).

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Grammatical information: m. f.

Meaning: `god, goddess' (Il.);

Compounds: myk. te-o. Very often in compp., e. g. ἄ-θεος, θεο-ειδής; θεόσ-δοτος after Διόσ-δοτος; on the form θεσ- s. θέσκελος, θέσπις. On θεσ- as magnifying prefix in MoGr. Georgakas Άθ. 46, 97ff.

Derivatives: 1. θεά f. `goddess' (ep.; details in Lommel Femininbildungen 13f., also Wackernagel Syntax 2, 25; on θεά and fem. θεός in Hom. s. Humbach Münch. Stud. zur Sprachwiss. 7, 46ff.). 2. θέαιναι pl. `goddesses' (after τέκταιναι a. o.; in Hom. as metr. filling; not with Chantraine REGr. 47, 287 n. 1 archaic form; further Schwyzer 475 w. n. 7). 3. θεῖος `divine' (Il.; cf. below) with θειώδως adv. (pap.), θειότης `godliness' (LXX, NT, Plu.), θειάζω `prophesy, honour as god' (Th.), also with prefix, e. g. ἐπι-θειάζω `swear in the name of the gods' with ( ἐπι-)θειασμός (Th.) 4. θεϊκός `id.' (late). 5. Denomin. verb θεόω, - όομαι `make to a god, become a god' (Call.), mostly with prefix, e. g. ἀπο-θεόω `id.' (pap., Plb., Plu.) with ἀποθέωσις (Str.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [259] * dʰ(e)h₁s- `god'

Etymology: The connection with Arm. di-k` pl. `gods' (Bartholomae BB 17, 348) seems probable; further to Lat. fēriae `festive days', fēstus `feastly, fānum `temple', s. W.-Hofmann s. vv.; to Skt. dhíṣṇiya- Mayrhofer KEWA s. dhiṣáṇā. Arm. di-k` would come from IE * dhēs-es, and θεός could be *dhĕs-ós; cf. θέσ-κελος; θεῖος then from *θέσ-ι̯ος (Schwyzer 467). The ē: ĕ go back on * dheh₁s-: * dhh₁s-; this explains also the Latin forms, e.g. fānum \< * fasnom \< * dʰh₁s-nom; thus Rix, Kratylos XIV (1969) [1972] 179f. - The etymology as *θϜεσ-ός with Lith. dvasià `spirit', MHG getwās `ghost' (s. on θεῖον) can be abandoned; there is no trace of the F in Greek and it is impossible in the Armenian word.

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