κερά-ννυμι

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to spread out, to unfold, to open' (Att.).

Other forms: πίτνημι, - άω (Il.; ἔπιτνον Hes. Sc. 291), πετ-άζω (LXX), - άω (Luc.), aor. πετά-σ(σ)αι. Pass. - σθῆναι, perf. midd. πέπταμαι (all Il.), πεπέτασμαι (Orac. ap. Hdt., D. S.), act. πεπέτακα (D. S.), fut. πετ-άσω (E. in lyr.), - άσσω (Nonn.), -ῶ (Men.).

Compounds: Often w. prefix, esp. ἐκ-, ἀνα-, κατα-.

Derivatives: 1. πέταλον n. `leaf' (Il.), `metal, resp. gold plating' (Att. inscr.); also - ηλα pl. (Hes. Sc.; metr. condit., Leumann Hom. Wörter 123 w. n. 91); πετάλ-ιον, - ια (on the accent etc. Scheller Oxytonierung 46f.), - ίς, - ειον, - ῖτις, - ώδης, - όω, - ωσις, - ίζω, - ισμός; hypostasis ἐμπεταλ-ίς ἔδεσμα διὰ τυροῦ σκευαζόμενον H. (: ἐν πετάλῳ). 2. πέτασος m. (f.) `broad-brimmed hat', also metaph. (hell.), with πετάσ-ιον, - ώδης, - ών, - ῖτις. 3. ( κατα-, παρα-, ὑπο- etc.) πέτασμα n. `blanket, curtain etc.' (IA.). 4. ἐκπέτασις f. `spreading out' (Plu.). 5. πετασμός m. `id.' (LXX). 6. πέταχνον (- ακνον H.) n. `open drinking bowl' (Alex.; like κυλίχνη a.o.; Chantraine Form. 195). 7. πέτηλος (- λός) `grown' ( μόσχος, βοῦς; Ath., H. [" ἀναπεπταμένα τὰ κέρατα ἔχων"]). 8. ἀναπετ-ής `spread out' with - εια f. `spreading out' (medic.). 9. ἐκπέτα-λος `open, flat' (Mosch., ἀγγεῖον). -- On themselves stand with unclear meaning development: πετήλας τοὺς μικροὺς καὶ θαμνώδεις φοίνικας; πετηλίς ἀκρίς H.; πετηλίας καρκίνος (Ael.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [824] * peth₂- `spread out'

Etymology: The pair πετά-σαι: πίτ-νη-μι agrees a.o. with κερά-σαι: κίρ-νη-μι, πελά-σασθαι: πίλ-να-μαι (s. vv.); to this πέ-πτᾰ-μαι (with short vowel from -h₂, Schwyzer 770 w. n. 6); after πετά-σαι the present πετά-ννυμι etc. (like κερά-σαι: κερά-ννυμι a.o.). -- Without direct agreement outside Greek but with several cognates. With redced a-vowel intr. Lat. pateō, - ēre `stand open', with patulus `spread out broadly'; perhaps also the nasal present pa-n-d-ō `spread out'. In other languages several verbal nouns, e.g. Av. paʮana- `wide, broad', Lith. petỹs m. `shoulder, arm-pit', Germ., e.g. OWNo. faðmr m. prop. *'extension (of the arms)', `embrace, bosom'. With l-suffix like πέτα-λον OHG fedel-gold n. `leaf-gold'. Further connections w. rich lit. in W.-Hofmann s. pateō and pandō, Fraenkel s. petỹs; also WP. 2, 18 u. Pok. 824. -- Prob. not here πατάνη. l

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