θρή-σασθαι

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `throne, seat', also `chair of state, judge's seat'.

Dialectal forms: Myc. tono, toronowoko

Compounds: Compp., e. g. χρυσό-θρονος `with golden throne' (Il.)

Derivatives: Diminutives θρονίς f. (Them.), θρόνιον (EM, Ptol.); further θρονίτης (cod. - τις) πρώτιστος H. (cf. Redard Les noms grecs en - της 24); θρονιτικός `throne-like' (Sidyma); denomin. verb θρονίζομαι `be placed on the throne' (LXX) with θρονιστής `enthroner' (liter. pap.), θρονισμός `enthronisation' (D. Chr.); also θρόνωσις `id.' (Pl. Euthd. 277d; as Rite of the Corybantes) as if from *θρονόομαι; cf. Chantraine Formation 279; on the facts v. Wilamowitz Glaube 2, 187.

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

Etymology: Formation like κλ-όνος (from κέλομαι(?); cf. also χρόνος and Κρόνος), from a verb `hold, support, bear', seen e. g. in Skt. perf. dā̆dhā́ra (would be Gr. *τέ-θορ-α), in the athem. root aor. dhr̥-thās (2. sg.), perhaps also in ἐν-θρ-εῖν φυλάσσειν H. (s. θρησκεύω); θρόνος would then be prop. "supporter, bearer". Greek relatives are: θόρναξ ὑποποδιον. Κύπριοι. η ἱερὸν Άπόλλωνος ἐν τῃ̃ Λακωνικῃ̃ H., prob. for *θρόναξ through metathesis and so directly derived from θρόνος. Forms with θρᾱ- are too far away: θρή-σασθαι with θρᾶ-νος (s. v.), θρῆ-νυς; θρά̄-σκω with θρησκεύω (s. v.); there is no indication that they have enything to do with θρόνος. - Representatives in other languages, e. g. Lat. ferē, frētus, firmus, Skt. caus. dhāráyati, dhárma- `right, custom', dháraṇa- `holding', give nothing new for Greek. More forms Pok. 252f., W.-Hofmann s. firmus, ferē, Mayrhofer s. dhāráyati. - However, Greek has no forms in - ον-ος, only - ων, - ων-ος and - ων, - ον-ος (Chantr. Form. 159ff); there is no certain instance of IE - ον-ος (as opposed to roots with o-vocalism, like βρόμ-ος); on the other hand most Greek words in - ον-ος are suspected to be of Pre-Greek origin; also there is no word for `chair' derived from the root * dher- (Pok. 252f, nor is there any Greek substantive which is certainly derived from this root (Pok. 252). So we can be rather certain that this word is Pre-Greek.

Page in Frisk: 1,686-687

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `bench, supporting beams' (Att. a. hell. inschr., Ar.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. ta-ra-nu.

Derivatives: Diminutive θρανίον `id.' (Ar.) with θρανίδιον (Ar.); θρανίτης `rower of the upper of the three rows' (Th., Ar.; s. Morrison Class. Quart. 41, 128ff.), f. θρανῖτις ( κώπη; Attica), with θρανιτικός (Callix.); θρανίας m. (Marcell. Sid.), θρᾶνις or - ίς (Xenokr.) = ξιφίας, `swordfish', after the form of the upper jaw, cf. Thompson Fishes s. v. Denominative verb θρανεύω `to stretch to the tanner's board' (Ar. Eq. 369; θρανεύεται συντρίβεται H.) with ἀθράνευτον ἄστρωτον H. (= E. Fr. 569); to συν-θρανόω, θρανύσσω s. v. - Beside it θρῆνυς, - υος m. `footstool' (Hom.; cf. Hermann Gött. Nachr. 1943, 8; Chantraine Formation 118; improbable Benveniste Origines 56), with secondary κ-enlargement (Chantraine 383, Schwyzer 496 n. 6) θρῆνυξ, - υκος (Euph.), θρᾶνυξ (Corinn.).

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

Etymology: If νο- or. νυ- is a suffix, we can connect the aor. inf. θρή-σασθαι (only Philet. 14 [IV-III^a]: θρήσασθαι πλατάνῳ γ\<ρ\> αίῃ ὕπο), usually rendered with `sit down'. But the original meaning must rather have been `support oneself (on)' v.t., if the word is cognate with θρόνος; θρᾶνος, θρῆνυς then "the support, the bearer". This analysis however is quite doubtful. The word is no doubt a Pre-Greek word.

See also: - Weiteres s. θρόνος; s. auch θρησκεύω.

Page in Frisk: 1,678-679