βδόλος

βδόλος

stench: masc nom sg

βδόλος, ὁ,

A stench, stink, Com.Adesp.781.

βδόλος

stench: masc acc sg

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `disgusting, loathsome' (Ar.)

Derivatives: βδελύσσομαι (- ττ-), fut. βδελύξομαι `feel a loathing' (Hp.), act. - ύσσω, - ύττω (LXX) with βδελυγμία (Cratin.) etc. Vb. adj. βδελυκτός ( βδελύκτροπος from *βδελυκτο-τροπος A.). PN Βδελυ-κλέων (Ar.). βδελυχρός (Epich.)

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

Etymology: βδελυρός is mostly explained as formed from βδέ-ω with a λυ-suffix (as in θῆ-λυ-ς), but this is hardly possible. A verb in - εω does not give a stem in -ε to which suffixes can be added. Then, a suffix - λυ- probably does not exist: θῆλυς seems rather built on an λ-stem (DELG, Frisk); and - λυ- was certainly no longer productive (Chantr. Form. 121). Here an λ-suffix was seen in βδέλλων τρέμων η βδέων, βδέλεσθαι κοιλιολυτεῖν H. (forms which are doubted) and in βδόλος `stench' (Com. Adesp. 781; cf. γαλεόβδολον, s. γαλέη). But these form are as difficult: there was no stem βδε- to which a suffix could be added. Also, it seems not clear from the meaning that βδελυρός was derived from βδέω (in H. forms are often explained with μισέω): that later the verb influenced by the meaning is easy to understand. Therefore the word cannot be explained as a Greek formation. It then seems probable to analyse βδελ-υρ-, both components of which are prob. Pre-Greek: βδ- and the suffix - υρ- (s. Beekes, Pre-Greek).

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Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `break wind' (Com.)

Other forms: Aor. βδέσαι (AP) and βδεῦσαι (Hierocl.)

Derivatives: βδ-ύλλω `break wind (for fear)' (Ar.) and βδέννυμαι ἐκκενοῦμαι την κοιλίαν Suid. ( βδένεσθαι H., correct?; Schwyzer 685, 697 and 736, Debrunner IF 21, 97f.) - βδόλος, βδελυρός and βδελύσσομαι (s. vv.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [829] * pesd- `break wind (slowly)'

Etymology: Old verb Russ. bzdetь, Lith. bezdù, bezdė́ti, Lat. pēdō \< * pezdō. Thus βδέω from *βzδέω; s. Schwyzer 326 Zus. 5. - Different from πέρδομαι.

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Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to drip, to shed drops, to drop' (Sapph., E. a. o.).

Other forms: - άω (hell. a. late epic, AP, Luc. a. o.), - άζω (Aq., Plu., Luc. a. o.), - άττω (Porph.), aor. - άξαι (Ar., Lyc., LXX).

Compounds: Also w. ἀπο-, ἐν- a. o.

Derivatives: σταλαγ-μός m. `the dripping, drop' (trag., Ar., Hp. etc.) with - μιαῖος `calculated by the drop (of the water-clock)' (Vett. Val. a. o.), - μίτης plantname ( Hippiatr.; Redard 79); also - μα n. `drop' (A., S., Skymn. a. o.). Lat. LW [loanword] stalagmia n. pl. `eardrops' (since Plaut.), stalagmiās m. `kind of copper-vitriol' (Plin. HN).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The present σταλάσσω as παλάσσω, ῥαθάσσω, αἱμάσσω; beside it the metric. conditioned σταλάω after χαλάω a. o., to which σταλεηδόνες σταλαγμοί H. (metr. for σταλεδ- or στα-ληδ- ?). -- Because of its stilistic character one is inclined to see in σταλάσσω an expressive enlargement of στάζω; cf. cases like πομφόλοξ: πομφός, πέμφιξ; βδελύσσομαι: βδόλος, βδέω; s. also νυκτάλωψ. On the formal connection with στάζω Debrunner IF 21, 224. -- Usually connected with a root ( s)tel- `drip, urinate', to which a. o. also τέλμα and NEngl. stale `urine' would belong (Bq, WP. 2, 642f., Pok. 1018 w. lit.); not esp. convincing. -- On ἀνασταλύζω s. v.

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