παρθεν-εύομαι

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `virgin, girl, young woman' (Il.).

Other forms: Also παρσένος (Ar.).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. παρθεν-οπῖπα (Λ 385), s. ὀπιπεύω; καλλι-πάρθενος `having fair virgins, belonging to a beautiful virgin' (E.).

Derivatives: A. Nouns. 1. Dimin. παρθεν-ίσκη, - ισκάριον (Hdn. Gr., gloss.); 2. παρθένιος (analog. - ειος, -ήϊος) `vestal' (Il.); 3. - ική f. `maiden' (Il.; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 210ff., Chantraine Études 101f., Specht Ursprung 210), - ικός `vestal' (LXX, D. S.; Chantraine op. cit. 121 a. 151); 4. - ιον, - ικόν, - ίς name of several plants, `artemisia' a.o. (Hp., Dsc.; on the naming motive Strömberg Pfl. 100); 5. - ώδης `vestal' (St. Byz.); 6. - ιανός `born under the sign of Virgo' ( Astr.); 7. - ίας m. `son of a maiden' (Arist., Str.); 8. - ών (- εών AP a.o.), - ῶνος m. `bower', usu. name of the temple of Athene παρθένος (Att.). 9. παρθεν-ία (- εία), - ίη f. `virginity' (Sapph., Pi.). B. Verbs. 1. παρθεν-εύομαι, -ω, also (in elevating meaning) with ἀπο-, δια-, ἐκ-, `to be a maiden, to treat as a m.' (Ion., A., E.) with - ευμα n. `maiden's work, son of a maiden' (E.), - ευσις f. = - ία (Luc.), - εία `id.' (E.), partly graphically coincided with - ία, s. Scheller Oxytonierung 34 f. 2. ἀπο-παρθενόω `to deflower' (LXX).

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

Etymology: Morphol. and etymolog. isolated. Several attempts: to εὑθενέω (Brugmann Sächs. Ges. Ber. 1906, 172ff.; w. lit.); to πτόρθος (Cuny REIE 1, 102 ff.); to θῆσθαι `suck' (Pedersen REIE 1, 192ff.); to OIr. ainder `young woman' (Pedersen JCeltStud. 1, 4ff.); to Lat. virgō (Schwyzer 297 w. Hirt a.o.; s. Messing Lang. 30, 108); to σκυρθάλιος νεανίσκος H. (Grošelj Živa Ant. 1, 125 f.). -- The word is prob. Pre-Greek. (The - σ- is the Dorian development of θ.)

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