ληκυθιάδες ἐνώτια ποιά

ληκυθ-ιάδες· ἐνώτια ποιά, Hsch.

Grammatical information: f. (on the gender Schwyzer-Debrunner 34 n. 2)

Meaning: `oil-, parfumbottle with handle' (Od.), also metaph. rhetorical bombast' (Cic., Plin.; = Lat. ampulla).

Dialectal forms: Epid. λάκυθος (IV^a)

Compounds: Few compp., e.g. αὑτο-λήκυθος `who carries (for poverty) his own oilcasket' = `poor man, beggar' (Att.).

Derivatives: Diminutivum ληκύθιον (Att.), ληκυθιάδες ἐνώτια ποιά (H.), ληκυτίαι pl. = λήκυθοι (pap.). - Denomin. verb ληκυθίζω `give a dump, hollow sound (as from a bottle with a small neck), speak deep in the throat' (Call., Str., Phryn., Poll.) with ληκυθ-ιστής `who recited with hollow voice, κοιλόφωνος'(S. Fr. 1063, H.), - ισμός `hollow, dump speaking' (Plu.); also as backformation λήκυθος τὸ μεταξὺ τοῦ λαυκανίου καὶ αὑχένος ἠχῶδες (Clearch.); cf. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 35 n. 12, Bill ClassPhil. 36, 46ff.; extensive Quincey Class Quart. 43, 32ff. with diff. interpretation and discussion.

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

Etymology: Cultural word (cf. Schwyzer 61, Hermann Glotta 13, 152); also GN Λήκυθος (Macedonia). Wrong IE etymologies in Bq and v. Blumenthal Gnomon 10, 526. Connection with OCS lakъtь, Russ. lákotь `pot' is doubtful, s. Vasmer Wb. s. v. (see Machek Studia in hon. Acad. d. Dečev 50). On λήκυθος in gen. L. J. Elferink, Lekythos. Archäologische, sprachliche und religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen. Amsterdam 1934 (in linguistical aspects contestable). - Fur. 121 connects λάγῡνος, λάγιον `beaker, vase'.

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