δράνος ἔργον

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `make, do' (Od.; Att. prose πράττω, ποιέω).

Other forms: Aeol. 3. sg. δραῖσι, aor. δρᾶσαι etc.

Compounds: Compp. with ἀνα-, ἀντι-, ἐπι-, παρα-, συν-, ὑπο-.

Derivatives: δρᾶμα `action, spectacle, drama' (A.) with dimin. δραμάτιον (Plu.) and δραματικός `dramatic' (Arist.); with analog. σ (cf. δρηστήρ below) δρασμάτων πανουργημάτων H. and δρασματικός = δραστήριος (Cat. Cod. Astr.); lengthened form δραμοσύνη `holy service' (Attica IV<sup>a</sup>), beside δρησμοσύνη `id.' (h. Cer. 476) from *δρήσμων, cf. Chantr. Form. 174. - δρᾶσις `action, strength' (A. D.) with τὸ δράσιμον (A. Th. 554; s. Arbenz Die Adj. auf - ιμος 78). - with analog. σ (Schwyzer 531): δρηστήρ, f. δρήστειρα (Od.), δρήστης, δράστης, δράστας (Archil., Pi.) `servant, -maid' (s. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 167f.) with δραστήριος `active' (A.), δραστηριότης (Eust.) and δραστηριώδης (Gal.), δραστικός `active' (Pl.), δρηστοσύνη `obligingness' (ο 321); denomin. δρηστεύω `serve (with holy actions)' (Lesbos). - Desider. δρᾱσείω `want to do' (S.). - Beside δράω, after βαίνω, φαίνω etc. δραίνω `want to do, can do' (Κ 96, Herod.; Ionismus, Bechtel Lex., Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 343) with ὀλιγο-δρᾰνέων `who can do little' (Il.; from ὀλίγα δραίνειν to ὀλιγηπελέων, cf. Schwyzer 724, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 349; also Bechtel Lex. s. ὀλιγοδρανέω, diff.), with ὀλιγοδρᾰνία (A.), ὀλιγοδρᾰνής (Ar.); innovation ἀδρᾰνής (LXX, Arr.) with ἀδράνεια (Hdn.), ἀδρανίη (A.R.), ἀδρανέω `not be active' (Arat.), ἀδρανίζω `id.' (sch.); retrograde δράνος ἔργον, πρᾶξις, ὄργανον, ἄγαλμα, κατασκεύασμα, δύναμις H. (and NGr. δράνα `tendril'?, Bogiatzides Άρχ. Έφ. 27, 115ff.), δρανεῖς δραστικοί H.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: If δραίνω is younger, the root was δρᾱ- (cf. κρᾱ-, τλᾱ- etc.). Connection with Baltic, Lith. daraũ, darýti, Latv. darît `do, make, build' is quite uncertain (cf. Schwyzer 675). (On darýti Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb.: caus. of derù, derė́ti `be useful' further connecting Skt. dhár-ma-, dhāráyati `hold fest' etc. (?). - On δράω, δρᾶμα see Snell Philol. Suppl. 20: 1 (1928) 1ff. and Philol. 85, 141ff. - The general idea `do, make' is a late abstraction, which is why expressions for it diverge very much. Cf. πράττω, ποιέω, ἔρδω.

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