θυεῖον

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `mortar' (Com.), also `oil-press' (pap.); θυεῖον `id.' (pap.);

Other forms: (- είη Nic. Th. 91; late also itacistic - ία, - ίη)

Dialectal forms: Myc. tuweta \/thuestās\/

Derivatives: Diminut. θυ(ε)ίδιον (Ar.); with backformation θυΐς, - ίδος f. (Damokr. ap. Gal.)? - Beside it θυέστης m. `pestle' (Dionys. Trag.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [261] * dʰuH- `fly about, dash'?

Etymology: Formation like ἐγχείη (: ἔγχος) a. o.; so \< *θυεσ-ίᾱ as ία-deriv. from θύος `burnt sacrifice' (Solmsen Wortf. 250 n.); cf. the concrete words in - ία, esp. names of vases like ὑδρία, ἀντλία, in Scheller Oxytonierung 48ff. From the meaning `vase for pounding the incense' developed through generalization resp. specialization `mortar' and `oil-press' (the development of the meaning is rather strange). - θυεῖον like ἀγγεῖον. - The pestle, θυέσ-της (s. Chantraine Formation 312f.), was conceived quite personally. - Wrong Persson Stud. 204 n. 1 (s. Bq).

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θυεῖον

mortar: neut dat sg

θυεῖον

mortar: neut dat sg

θῠεία, [dialect] Ion. [suff] θῠγατρο-είη Nic.Th.91: ἡ:—

A mortar, Ar.Nu. 676, Ra. 124, al., Lys.Fr. 62a.

2 cup of the cottabus, Pl.Com.46.3.—Later [full] θυία, [full] θυΐα, Ph.Bel.88.49, Dsc.2.76.3 and 4; in the sense of oil-press, PFay.42 (a) i 10(ii A.D.): [full] θυίη [pron. full] [ῐ], Androm. ap. Gal.14.41: [full] θυεῖον, τό, PLond.2.193.23 (ii A.D.).

II [full] θύεια, v. θυία 1.