διφ-

δῑφ-άω, only [tense] pres.,

A search after,

πόντῳ ἐν ἰχθυόεντι.. τήθεα διφῶν Il.16.747

;

τεὴν διφῶσα καλιήν Hes.Op. 374

;

ἐν οὔρεσι πάντα λαγωὸν διφᾷ Call.Epigr.33

, cf. Fr. 165; διφᾶν τὰ καλύμματα (or καλλύσματα, q. v.) search them well, Thphr.Char.10.6: abs., Herod.6.73;

εἴ ποθι διφώωσα.. ἀθρήσειεν Nonn.D.48.592

:—[dialect] Ion. [full] διφέω, AP9.559 (Crin.).

δῑφ-ήτωρ, ορος, ὁ,

A a searcher,

βυθῶν διφήτορες Opp.H.2.435

.

δίφρος (-ῳ, -ον; -ους)

δῐκο-δίφης [δῑφ], ου, ὁ,

A one who grubs for lawsuits, Luc.Lex.9.

ζίλαι,

A v. ζελᾶς. [full] ζινίχιον, τό, shoe-latchet, Suid. [full] ζιτᾶνα· καταπύγονα, Hsch. [full] ζίφυιος, Elean for δίφ-. [full] ζίω, = ζητέω, EM411.51: ζίεται· ζητεῖται, ibid., Hsch. [full] ζμαράγδινος, v. σμαρ-. [full] ζμάω, v. σμάω. [full] ζμῆμα, v. σμῆμα. [full] ζμιρριεῖα, τά, emery, IG12(8).51.20 (Imbros, ii B.C.); cf. σμύρις. [full] ζμύρνη, [full] ζμύρνινος, etc., v. σμύρν-. [full] ζόα, [full] ζόη, [full] ζοτα, v. ζωή. [full] ζόασον· σβέσον, Hsch. [full] ζοός, v. ζωός. [full] ζορκάς, άδος, and ζόρξ, ζορκός, ἡ, v. δορκάς. [full] ζούγωνερ, [dialect] Lacon. for ζύγωνες, ploughing oxen, Id. [full] ζούϊον ἢ ζοῦον θηρίον, ἢ ἐρυσίπελας, Id. (Prob. Thess. for ζῷον.) [full] ζούσθω· ζωννύσθω, Id. (Prob. Thess.)

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `thirst' (Il.).

Other forms: rarely δίψη (A. Ch. 756), also δίψος n. (Th.; after πνῖγος, ῥῖγος etc.; s. Chantr. Form. 420)

Dialectal forms: Myc. dipisijo, and dipisijewijo (from *διψιευς?)

Compounds: πολυ-δίψιος `very thirsty, caring water', of Argos (Hom.); metrical for *πολύ-διψος.

Derivatives: δίψιος `thirsty, dry' (trag.), διψηρός `id.' (Hp.; after αὑχμηρός), διψώδης `id.' (Hp.), διψαλέος `id.' (hell. and late; after ἀζαλέος etc.), διψάς f. `id.' (Thphr.), also name of a snake, whose bite caused a strong thirst (cf. Chantraine 354f.). - δίψακος m. the name of diabetes (medic.; because of the drinking of the patients, Strömberg Wortstudien 89), also plant name `Dipsacus silvestris' (Dsc., Gal.; see Strömberg Pflanzennamen 78), with διψακερός `thirsty' (EM), acc. to H. = ταλαίπωρος; - διψοσύνη = δίψα (Orac. ap. Porph.). - διψά̄ων Ptz. (λ 584), inf. διψῆν (Hdt.), 3. sg. διψῃ̃ (Pi., Pl.), hell. also διψᾶν, -ᾳ̃; also διψέω (Archil.) and διψώω (Tryph.); with δίψησις (Ath. 1, 10b; doubtful) and διψητικός (Arist.). - One cites also forms with διφ-, δίφας `a kind of snake' (Artemid. 2,13), δίφατον and δίβαν ὄφιν. Κρῆτες H. (s. διφάω).

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

Etymology: With διψά̄ων, διψῆν compare πεινά̄ων, πεινῆν; the forms διψά̄ων, πεινά̄ων might be (Aeolic?) analogical formations after the normal epic ending -ά̄ων; διψῆν and πεινῆν are unexplained (Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 21 and 362, Leroy Sprachgesch. und Wortbed. 288f.; improbable on διψῆν, πεινῆν K. Meister HK 89 [cf. Fraenkel Mélanges Boisacq 1, 376f.]). These formations show, that they are not denominatives ; rather δίψᾰ, δίψη and πείνη, πεῖνα are postverbal (Schwyzer 476, Chantraine l. c.). Cf. Lasso de la Vega Emerita 22, 88f.; 96f. Meillet speaks of it BSL 28 (1927) 125 (unclear to me). - The final of δίπ-σα can hardly be IE. So prob. a Pre-Greek word. See the variants with φ and β (Fur. 326).

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