ητή-ριον

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to tread, to enter, to frequent, to tread under foot = to slight' (poet. since Pi.), `to tread grapes, grain' = `to tread, to thresh' (LXX, pap.).

Other forms: Aor. πατῆσαι etc.

Compounds: Also w. prefix, esp. περι-, κατα-, ἀπο-.

Derivatives: From πατέω: πατ-ησμός m. `the treading' (A.), `the threshing' (pap.); - ησις f. `the treading (of grapes)' (Corn.); - ημα n. `refuse, sweepings, waste' (LXX); - ητής m. `grape-treader' (pap.), - ητή-ριον n. `treading place' (Mylasa); πατηνόν πεπατημένον, κοινόν H. From περι-πατέω: περιπάτ-ησις f. `the walking about' (late), - ητικός `walking about' name of a school of philosophers (hell.). From κατα-πατέω: καταπάτ-ησις f. `the treading' (LXX), `the walking about, inspection' (pap.), - ημα n. `that which is trodden under foot' (LXX). From ἀπο-πατέω `to retire' = `to do one's needs' (IA.): ἀποπάτ-ημα, - ησις (com., Gal.), also - ος m. `excrement, dung' (Hp., Ar.). From πηλοπατέω `to tread in mire' (pap., sch.): πηλοπατ-ίδες f. pl. "miretreaders" = kind of shoes (Hp.; cf. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 243 a. 2, 116f. with wrong analysis). -- Besides πάτος m. 1. `road, path' (Hom., A. R.) with ἐκ-πάτ-ιος `astray, extraordinary' (A.); 2. `the treading, place where one treads, floor'; `the trampling, trampled matter, threshing, dust, dirt' (hell.); περί-πατος m. `the walking about, place for walking, discussion', name of a philosophers' school (Att. etc.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: In meaning 2. πάτος is clearly a backformation of πατέω (Frisk Eranos 38, 43 ff.), thus περίπατ-ος from περι-πατέω a. corresponding ἀπόπατ-ος. In the meaning `way, path' it can be however an old variant of πόντος; πατέω is then denominative. Schwyzer 726 (a. 705) leaves the matter open. Wrong Moorhouse Class Quart. 35, 90ff. -- DELG doubts the connection with πόντος. (Further s. πόντος.) πατέω has no etym.

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