Κολοκυνθώ

κολόκυνθος

masc dat sg

κολόκυνθος

masc dat sg

Grammatical information: m. (sic)

Meaning: `round gourd, Lagenaria vulgaris' (Hp., Com., Arist., pap.); κολοκυνθαρύταινα f. `spoon from K.' (pap.).

Other forms: Att. - τη, later - υνθᾰ, - υντᾰ (Solmsen Wortforsch. 263) f., late also - υνθος (- υντος, - ιντος)

Derivatives: Diminut. κολοκύντιον (Phryn. Com.), - υνθίς ` κολόκυνθα ἀγρία ' (Dsc., Gal.), - ύνθινος (- ύντινος, - ίνθινος) `made with κ.' (pap., Luc.), - υνθιάς f. `id.' (AP), - ών `plantation of k.' (pap.); ἀποκολοκύντωσις `change in pumpkin' (Seneca, D. C. 60, 35; parody after ἀποθέωσις, s. Stiebitz Μνῆμα f. Jos. Zubatý [Prag 1926] 391ff.). - Κολοκυνθώ f. PN; s. Schulze Kl. Schr. 309f.

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

Etymology: For the ending cf. the (foreign) plant-name in - υνθος, - ινθος (Chantraine Formation 370). The middelsyllable reminds of Lat. cucumis `cucumber', κύκυον τὸν σικυόν, κυκύϊζα γλυκεῖα κολόκυντα H.; loan from a common source, cf. W.-Hofmann s. cucumis, where he argues against connection with κυέω; s. also Kretschmer Glotta 15, 169 (against a most improbable hypothesis of Rozwadowski). An informant in Ath. 2, 58f says that it was intoduced from India; the comparison with Skt. kālindam n. `water-melon' and Kurd. kalak `melon' (Pott) is not very informative. - On the names of the gourd and cucumber in gen. s. Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 652ff.

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