νοσητήριον

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `illness, disease', metaph. `distress, need' (Il.).

Other forms: ep. Ion. νοῦσος (s. below).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. νοσο-ποιέω `cause disease' (Hp.), ἐπί-νοσος `a prey of disease, unhealthy' (Hp., Arist.; Strömberg Prefix Studies 85).

Derivatives: A. Adj.: 1. νοσερός `ill, unhealthy' (Hp., E.. Arist.); 2. νοσηρός `id.' (Hp., X.; ὑγιηρός Pi., Ion.) with νοσήριον (H. s. κηρέσιον; for νοσητήριον or νοσηρόν?); 3. νοσηλός `ill, sickly' (Hp.; rather from νοσέω, cf. Chantraine Form. 241) with νοσήλια n. pl. `sick-diet' (Opp.), νοσηλεύω, - ομαι `care for a patient, be ill' (Isoc., J.), νοσηλεία f. `nursing, morbidity' (S., J., Plu.); 4. νοσακερός `id.' (Arist.; after Poll. 3, 105 ἐσχάτως κωμικόν; on ακ-enlargement Frisk Nom. 62ff.); 5. νοσώδης `ill, unhealthy' (Hp., Att.); 6. Νόσιος surn. of Ζεύς (Miletos VI--V^a). -- B. Verbs: 1. νοσέω `be ill' (Att., also Ion.) with νόσημα n. `illness' (IA.), with νοσημάτιον dimin. (Ar.), - τικός, *τώδης `sickly' (Arist.); 2. νοσεύομαι `be sickly' with νόσευμα `illness' (Hp.); 3. νοσάζομαι, -ω `be, make ill', νοσίζω `make ill' (Arist., Gal.). -- C. Substant. 1. νόσανσις f. `getting ill' (Arist.: ὑγίανσις; *νοσαίνω); 2. unclear νοσίμη (leg. - ήμη?) = νόσημα (Theognost.).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: From νόσος: νοῦσος we conclude to *νόσϜος (Schulze Q. 115 with Aufrecht KZ 1, 120). Beside the also in Ionic younger νοσέω, ep. νοῦσος can also be understood as a false rewriting of ΝΟΣΟΣ for *νόσσος; then the ep. form must have been taken over by Hdt. and Hp. Schwyzer 227 a. 308, cf. Wackernagel Unt. 86; s. also Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 162 and Lejeune Traité de phon. 117. -- Several explanations, which have at best hypothetic value, as Brugmann Sächs. Ges. Ber. 1897, 29ff. and IF 28, 363ff., Solmsen BphW 1906, 754f. (all noted by Bq; s. also WP. 2, 333). - The word could well be Pre-Greek (note the retained - σ-; not in Fur.)

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