κεφαλ-αλγ-ία

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `head', also metaph. `the uppermost, most extreme, source etc.' (Il.).

Compounds: several compp., e. g. κεφαλ-αλγ-ία `headache' (Hp.), through dissimilation - αργία (Luc.); βου-κέφαλος `with cow-head' (Ar.); also as plant-name (Strömberg Pflanzennamen 54); as PN Βου-κεφάλᾱς m. the personal horse of Alexander the Great (Str., Plu.; on the formation Schwyzer 451).

Derivatives: Diminut. κεφάλιον (Att. inscr.), - ίδιον (Poll., pap.), κεφαλίς f. `bulb of an onion, toe-cap of a shoe, capital of a column etc.' (Arist.), κεφαλὶς βιβλίου `book-roll' (LXX); - κεφάλαιον n. `the main thing, -point, -sum, capital' (Pi., att.; rarely adj. κεφάλαιος [Ar. Ra. 854, PMasp. 151, 16, VI<sup>p</sup>]) with κεφαλαιώδης, adv. - ωδῶς `regarding the main point' (Hp., Arist., hell.) and the denominative κεφαλαιόω `(summarize the main points) ' (Att.), from where κεφαλαίωμα `total sum' (Hdt. 3, 159), - αίωσις `summary' (Sch.), - αιωτής = lat. capitularius with - τία (pap. Rom. Emp.); - κεφαλαία f. `chronic headache' (medic.); - κεφαλώδης `head-like' (Thphr.), κεφαλικός `belonging to the head, to life, capitalis' (pap., Dsc.); - κεφαλίτης λίθος `corner-stone' (H.), κεφαλίτης γλήχων prob. `Mentha aquatica' (Hippiatr.; Redard Les noms grecs en - της 73); κεφαλίνη `root of the tongue' (Poll.); κεφαλῖνος fishname = βλεψίας (Dorio ap. Ath.; Strömberg Fischnamen 41), also κέφαλος `Mugil cephalus' (Hp., Com., Arist.; extens. Thompson Fishes s. v.; diff. Pisani Ist. Lomb. 75: 2, 54f. [: to Skt. śaphara-, Lith. šãpalas `Cyprinus']); - κεφάλωμα `sum' (Messen., Delph.; after ἀνάλωμα, Bechtel Dial. 2, 156; cf. also κεφαλαίωμα above); κεφαλωτός `with a head' (Arist., hell.), as plant-name `Thymian' (Ps.-Dsc.; Strömberg Pflanzennamen 50), - ωτόν (sc. πράσον) `onion' (pap.); - κεφαληδόν `per head' (Priene IV^a). - Denomin. κ]εφαλίζω `behead' ( BGU 1, 341, 9); in other meaning κεφαλισμός `table of multiplication' (Arist.); κεφαλόω in κεκεφαλωμένος `provided with a head' (Arist.-comm.); κεφαλιόω in ἐκεφαλίωσαν (Ev. Mark. 12, 4), meaning unclear `beat the head' or `behead'?, s. Bauer Gr.-dt. Wb. s. v. (wrong Pernot Neophilol. 26, 310ff.). - Further the hypostases προσ- (Dor. ποτι-), ὑπο-κεφάλαιον `(head)cushion' (IA.; cf. Schwyzer-Debrunner 517), ἀποκεφαλίζω `behead' (LXX, Phld.) with - ισμός, ισμα, - ιστής.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [423] * gʰebʰel- `head'

Etymology: Old word for `head', found also in Tocharian and Germanic: Toch. A śpāl `head' (final unclear), OHG gebal m., MHG. gebel `skull', OHG gibilla f. `id.' (Germ. i̯ō-deriv); besides in the sense of `front' OHG gibil m., Goth. gibla m. (n-stem) and, with ablaut, ONo. gafl m. `side of a facade'; IE. * ghebh(e)l-, which looks like an l-stem; but a corresponding basis has nowhere been found. - Here also γαβαλάν ἐγκέφαλον η κεφαλήν H. and Maced. (Illyr.?) κεβ(α)λή; s. κεβλη. The Greek -α is difficult. S. Benveniste, Word 10 (1954) 255f.

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