βότραχος

βότρᾰχος,

A v. βάτραχος.

βάτρᾰχος [βᾰ], ὁ,

A frog, Batr.6,18,59, al., Hdt.4.131, etc.: prov., ὕδωρ πίνειν βάτραχος a very frog to drink, Aristopho10.3; βατράχοις οἰνοχοεῖν, of those who give what is not wanted, Pherecr.70.5;

μέλει μοι τῶν τοιούτων ἧττον τῶν ἐν τοῖς τέλμασι β. Jul.Mis. 358a

; χλωρὸς β., of the tree-frog, Thphr.Sign.15.

II = ἁλιεύς, a kind of fish, fishing-frog or sea-angler, Lophius piscatorius, Arist.GA 749a23, Ael. NA13.5.

III frog of a horse's hoof, Gp.16.1.9, Hippiatr.8: hence Astron., of the star β Centauri, Ptol.Alm.8.1.

IV ἐσχάρας εἶδος, Hsch.

V swelling under the tongue, Aët.8.39.—Dial. forms are cited by Gramm.,

1 [dialect] Ion. βάθρακος, cited from Hdt. (prob.4.131) by Sch.Il.4.243, Eust.1570.11, and found in PLond.1.124.31 (iv/v A. D.); [dialect] Ion. also

βότραχος Hp.

ap. Gal.19,

βρόταχος Xenoph.40

(as pr. n., GDI5577,5592).

2

βράταχος Hsch.

(as pr. n., GDI5727d29).

3 Cypr.

βρούχετος Hsch.

4 Phoc. βριαγχόνη Id.

5 Pontic βάβακος Id. Cf. βύρθακος, βρύτιχος.

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `frog' (Hdt.). Also name of a fish `Lophius piscatorius' (Arist.), s. Strömberg Fischnamen 92f.).

Other forms: Ion. βάθρακος with normal displacement of aspiration (Schwyzer 269, Lejeune, Phonét. 50); βότραχος (Hp.) and βρόταχος (Xenoph. 40, s. Bechtel Dial. 3, 109); βρατάχους βατράχους H.; - βρούχετος.. βάτραχον δε Κύπριοι H. (after βρυχάομαι?, Schwyzer 182); βύρθακος βάτραχος H.; βρύτιχοι βάτραχοι μικροὶ ἔχοντες οὑράς H. (cf. βρύω?); - βριαγχόνην βάτραχον. Φωκεῖς H. (mistake?; for *βρ(α)τ-αγχ-?); βρόγχος βάτραχος H. may also be a mistake); still βλίκανος, βλίκαρος, βλίχα(ς) (H., EM, Suid.); βλίταχος (H.). - βάβακοι ὑπὸ Ήλείων τέττιγες, ὑπὸ Ποντικῶν δε βάτραχοι H. ( βαβάζω, s. v.). - Mod. Gr. forms in Hatzidakis Lexikogr. Archiv ( Anh. Άθ. 26) 48ff., also G. Meyer IF 6, 107f.

Derivatives: Demin. βατράχιον (Paus.), plant `Ranunculus' (Hp., Dsc., cf. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 119); βατραχίσκοι μέρος τι τῆς κιθάρας H.; on the suffixes Chantr. Form. 408. - βατραχίτης, - ῖτις ( λίθος; from the colour; Plin.; s. Redard Les noms grecs en - της 53).

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

Etymology: Several variants will be due to folketymology or taboo, and also simple phonetic variation. A priori for all these forms a local, i.e. Pre-Gr. form is to be expected. To this will point the variation α\/ο. This holds also for βαρδακος if this must be read in H. for βαρακος βάραχος (Fur. 184 A. 2; s. Latte). The form may in origin have been onomat.? (cf. Grošelj, Živa Ant. 6 (1956) 235) βρατ-αχ-, cf. βρεκεκεξ. Or even * brt-ak-, from which the forms with - υ- might come ( βύρθακος, βρύτιχος). The desperate forms βριαγχόνη, βρόγχος (this form to be read for βρούχετος?) contain a (misread) prenasalized *( βρατ)αγχος, which would also point to Pre-Greek. On the χ-suffix in animal names Specht Ursprung 255. - The forms βλικ\/χ- and βάβακοι, of course, are etymologically unrelated. - For the meaning `hearth' Szemerényi, Gnomon 43 (1971) 660 refers to Alb. vatre.

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