μεσαι-πόλιος

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `whitishly grey', esp. of hair, also of foaming seas (ep. Il., also hell.).

Other forms: adj.

Dialectal forms: Myc. poriwa n. pl. (= sg.?) \/ poliwa\/.

Compounds: Compp. e.g. πολιο-κρόταφος `with grey temples' (Θ 518 a. o.), ὑπο-, ἐπι-πόλιος `grizzled, mixed with grey' (Anacr. resp. D.), prob. backformations (cf. ἐπιπολιόομαι below), s. Strömberg Prefix Studies 101 ff.; on μεσαι-πόλιος s. μέσος.

Derivatives: 1. Fem. πολιάς (Luc. Lex.); 2. the pl.name πόλιον n. `Teucrium polium or creticum' (Thphr., Nic., Dsc.), after the colour of the flower (Dsc. 3, 1 10); 3. the abstracts πολιότης f. `greyness' (Arist.), πολιά (from πολι-ιά) f. `id.', also as disease (Arist.); 4. the denomin. a. πολι-αίνομαι `to become whitish', of the sea (A. Pers. 109; lyr.); b. - όομαι, - όω, also w. ἐπι-, προ-, `to become, make grey' (Arist.) with - ωσις f. `the becoming grey' (Arist.), - ωμα n. `greyness' (Eust.); c. - άζω `to become grey' (sch.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [804] * poliwo- `gray'

Etymology: With πολιός is perh. the semantically exactly agreeing Arm. ali-k`, gen. ale-ac' pl. `the (white) crests of waves, white hair, white beard' also formally identical (IE *polii̯o-, -ā), in any case closely related. As basis one may assume *πολι-Ϝός (Schwyzer 472 w. lit.); Further s. πελιδνός, πελιός. Extensively on πολιός a. cogn. Reiter Die griech. Bez. der Farben weiß, grau und braun 54ff. -- But *pl̥ii̯o- means rather *pl̥Hii̯o- which would not give πολιός (it requires rather *pol(H)ii̯o-). -- DELG writes that the word is `evidently' cognate with πελιός, which seems contradicted by the meaning (`dunkelfarben').

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Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `(being) in the middle, middle', of space, sime etc., τὸ μέσον `the middle' (Il.). Forms of somp.: μεσαί-τερος, - τατος (IA.; after παλαίτερος a.o.; Schwyzer 632), μέσ(σ)ατος (Il., Ar.; after ἔσχατος etc.), μεσσάτιος (Call.; like ἐσχάτιος), μεσάτιον name of a strap (Poll.; vgl. μέσαβον); μεσσότατος (A. R., Man.).

Other forms: Aeol. μέσσος, Cret. Boeot. μέττος.

Compounds: Very often as 1. member, e.g. μεσό-δμη, μεσ-ημβρία (s. vv.); also μεσαι-πόλιος `halfgrey, growing grey' (Ν 361; cf. e.g. μεσό-λευκος) like μεσαί-τερος not locatival, but metr. conditioned (Schwyzer 448).

Derivatives: Also adjectives, partly stilistically formally enlarged, partly from (τὸ) μέσον: 1. μεσήεις = μέσος (M269; metr. enlargement at verse-end (after τιμήεις, τελήεις?), Risch $56e; see Debrunner Άντίδωρον 28 f. 2. μεσ(σ)ήρης = μέσος (E., Eratosth.; after ποδήρης a. o.). 3. μεσαῖος = μέσος (Antiph.; as τελευταῖος). 4. μεσάδιος `central' (Aeol. acc. to sch. D.T.; after διχθάδιος a. o., cf. also μεσάζω). 5. μεσίδιος `in the middle, equal' (Arist.); μεσίδιον n. `at a mediator deposed property' with - ιόω `make a deposite' (pap., inscr.). -- 6. μεσίτης m. `mediator, arbiter' (Redard 25 f., 260 n. 1) with - ιτεύω 'be a μ., balance', also `pawn' (Plb., pap., NT), - ιτεία `mediation, settlement, pawning' (J., pap.). 7. μέσης m. `wind between ἀπαρκτίας and καικίας' (Arist.; Schwyzer 461, Chantraine Form. 31), also μεσεύς = καικίας (Steph. in Hp.). -- 8. μεσότης, - ητος f. `middle, mediocre, moderation' (Pl., Arist.). -- 9. μεσακόθεν adv. `among, between' (Arcad. IV^a), \< - αχόθεν after πανταχόθεν (Thurneysen Glotta 12, 146, Schwyzer 630); not with Bechtel Gött. Nachr. 1920, 244 to Goth. * midjunga in midjun[ga] gards. -- Denomin. verbs: 1. μεσόω `form the middle, be in...' (IA.); 2. μεσεύω `keep the mean, be neutral' (Pl. Lg., X., Arist.); 3. μεσάζω = μεσόω (LXX, D.S.). -- On μεσ(σ)ηγύς s. v.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [706] *medʰi̯o- `middle'

Etymology: Old local adj., identical with Skt. mádhya-, Lat. medius, Germ., e.g. Goth. midjis, OHG mitti, IE *médhi̯os `in the middle'. More forms from several other languages in WP. 2, 261, Pok. 706f., W.-Hofmann s. medius, Mayrhofer s. mádhyaḥ, Feist Vgl. Wb. s. midjis, Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. mẽdis, Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. s. mežá. Supposition on the prehistory (adjectiv. of an adverb *médhi?; cf. μετά) also in Schwyzer 461 a. 627.

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