θᾰλασσό-πρᾰσον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `leek, Allium porrum', also of a kind of seaweed like leek (com., Thphr.).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. πρασο-ειδής `leek-like', from the colour (Hp., Arist.), θαλασσό-πρασον n. of a seaweed (Ath. Mech.).

Derivatives: 1. πράσ-ιος (Pl.), - ινος (Arist., LXX), - ιανός (M. Ant.), - ώδης (Thphr.) `leek-colour, blue-green' (Capelle RhM 101, 35); 2. - ῖτις f. n. of a stone, after the colour (Thphr.; Redard 59f.); 3. - ιον n. plant-name `horehound, Marrubium etc.' (Hp., Arist., Thphr.; Andrews ClassPhil. 56, 76); from this πρασίτης οἶνος? (v.l. in Dsc. 5, 48; Redard 98); 4. πρασιά, Ion. - ιή, mostly pl. - ιαί, f. `garden-bed', prop. "leek-bed" (Od., hell.), pl. att. Demos and town in Laconia (Th.), with - ιάζομαι, - ιόομαι `to be divided in beds' (Aq.); Scheller Oxytonierung 67; 5. πρασίζω `to be leek-coloured' (Dsc.); 6. Πρασσαῖος m. nickname of a frog (Batr.; - σσ- hypocoristic; ?).

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

Etymology: The traditional identification with Lat. porrum (since Fick and Curtius) would lead to IE *pr̥som; the remarkable maintenance of the - σ- reminds of δασύς (s.v. w. lit.) beside Lat. densus. For a loan from a common source (Schwyzer 58) factual considerations can be adduced; cf. Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 710ff., to this Vycichl Sprache 9, 21 f. (Anatol.-Sum.[?]). Further lit. w. other hypotheses (to be rejected) in WP. 2, 84, Walde LEW² and W. -Hofmann s. porrum. -- If the word is Pre-Greek, this may explain the - σ- (not in Furnée).

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θᾰλασσό-πρᾰσον, τό,

A sea-weed, Ath.Mech.18.5.