παιών-ιος

παιών-ιος, α, ον,

A belonging to Paeon or medicine, healing, χείρ, χεῖρες, A.Supp. 1066 (lyr.), S.Ph. 1345, Ar.Ach. 1223;

φάρμακα A.Ag. 848

;

εὐχαί Id.Fr. 144

: in later Prose, Jul.Or.8.240b: c. gen.,

χρυσὸς ἔρωτος ἀεὶ παιώνιος AP 9.420

(Antip.):—fem. [full] παιωνιὰς σοφίη, healing art, medicine, ib.11.382.6 (Agath.); also [full] παιωνὶς τέχνη, S.E.M.1.51; cf. παιόνιος.

2 Subst. [full] Παιώνιος, ὁ, healer, c. gen., S.Tr. 1208; Παιωνία, epith. of Athena, Paus.1.2.5, etc.

b [full] Παιώνιον, τό, hospital, Crates Com.15.3 (also

Παιωνεῖον Phot.

).

c name of a pill, Gal.13.242.

d [full] Παιώνια, τά, festival of Paeon, Ar.Ach. 1213.

II κέλαδος οὐ π. un like a song of victory, A.Pers. 605.

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: name of a hail-song and hymn, esp. for Apollo, paean; also personified as divine physician (Hom.), later surn. of Apollo, appellat. `physician, saviour'; also name of a verse-foot (Arist., Heph.).

Other forms: παιήων, - ονος (Il.). παιών, - ῶνος (IA.; cf. Wackernagel Glotta 14, 61ff. = Kl. Schr. 2, 869 ff.), πάων, - ονος (Aeol.); παιάν, - ᾶνος (Dor., trag., hell.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. pajawone (dat.) \/Paiāwonei\/, Ruijgh Minos 9(1968)119.

Derivatives: 1. παιών-ιος `belonging to paean, healing, saving' (A., S., Ar.), f. - ιάς (AP), - ίς (S. E.); also - ία f. surn. of Athena (Paus.), appellat. plantname `peony' (Thphr., Ps.-Dsc.; Strömberg 99); παιαν-ίδες pl. adjunct of ἀοιδαί (Pi.); Παιηόν-ιος = Παιώνιος ( APl.); παιαν-ίας m. `paean-singer' (Sparta). 2. παιων-ικός = παιώνιος (Plu., Gal.), παιαν-ικός `paean-like' (Ath.). 3. παιηοσύνη ἰατρεία H. 4. παιων-ίζω (IA.), - αν-ίζω (Dor.) `to strike up a paean, to worship with a p.' with - ισμός m. (Th., Str., D. H.), - ισταί m. pl. `guild of the paean-singers' (Rome, Piräus, II--III^p). On the unclear Att. name of a deme Παιανία Wackernagel l.c.

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

Etymology: Probably disjoined from the exclamation ἰη παιήων, ἰὼ παιάν (as initial of a song), first as appellative, basis *παιά-(Ϝ)ων like Ιά(Ϝ)ονες, κοινά(Ϝ)ων (s. Ἴωνες a. κοινός w. lit.), but further unclear. After Schwyzer IF 30, 445 f. to παίω `beat' through *παῖϜα, *παϜίᾱ `blow' as "who heals illnesses through magic (Apollon)". Also to παίω, but with different (less probable) argumentation Diehl RhM 89, 90 a. 109 ff. Diff. (to παύω) Pisani Rend. Acc. Lincei 6:5, 208. -- The similarity with the peoples name Παίονες may be not accidental (Macurdy Glotta 6, 297ff. Tribal god of the P.; thus Kretschmer Glotta 21, 176f.). - The word may well be of Pre-Greek origin; cf. Ruijgh l.c.

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