πτέρομαι

πτέρομαι,= πταίρω (q.v.), Gloss., v.l. in Hippiatr.38.

πταίρω, Hippiatr.38 (

A v.l. πτέρεται, v. πτέρομαι), also [full] πτείρω, Hdn. Gr.1.191 codd. ([tense] pres. in use in early writers [full] πτάρνυμαι, Hp.Morb.2.54, X.An.3.2.9, Philem.100.4, Arist.Pr. 962b8 (also πτάρνεται Gloss.), [tense] impf.

ἐπταρνύμην Diog.Ep.35.3

): [tense] aor. 2

ἔπτᾰρον Od.17.541

, etc.: rarely [tense] aor. 1, part.

πτάραντες Arist.Pr. 963a33

(s.v.l.):—[voice] Pass., v. sub fin.:— sneeze, μέγ' ἔπταρεν he sneezed aloud, Od. l.c. (taken for a good omen, cf. Ar.Ra. 647, etc.); but also as a bad omen,

λυπούμεθ' ἂν πτάρῃ τις Men.534.9

;

ἔπταρον εἰς ἀνέμους AP11.375

(Maced.); οὐδὲ λέγει Ζεῦ σῶσον, ἐὰν πτάρῃ ib. 268;

ἀναλαβὼν τοιοῦτόν τι, οἵῳ κνήσαις ἂν τὴν ῥῖνα, πτάρε Pl.Smp. 185e

: metaph. of a lamp, sputter, AP6.333 (Marc. Arg.):—also in [tense] aor. [voice] Pass., part.

πταρείς Hp.Epid. 5.14

, Arist.Pr. 887b35.

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to sneeze' (Hp., X.).

Other forms: rare a. late πτάρνεται, πταίρω, πτείρω, πτέρομαι; aor. 2. πταρεῖν (since ρ 541), ptc. also πταρείς (Hp., Arist.), πτάραντες (Arist.; uncertain).

Derivatives: πταρ-μός m. `the sneezing' (IA.) with - μικός `causing to sneeze', - μική f. `sneezewort' (Dsc., Gal.; Strömberg Pfl.namen 85); πτόρος `id.' (Hdn. Gr. 1, 191).

Origin: ONOM [onomatopoia, and other elementary formations]

Etymology: Onomatop. word, prob. genetically cognate both with Arm. p'ṙngam, p'ṙnč̣em `sneeze' as with an Italo-Celt. word, Lat. sternuō `sneeze', Celt., e.g. OIr. sreod `sneezing'; the assumption of a common basis (* pster-) is hypothetic. Lit. w. further Celt. forms in WP. 2, 101, W.-Hofmann s.v.; cf. also Porzig Gliederung 212. On the Arm. form s. Clackson1994, 99. -- Beside it the aspirated ἀποφθαράξασθαι τὸ τοῖς μυκτῆρσιν εἰς τὸ ἔξω ἦχον προέσθαι, ἀποφλάσαι, ῥογχάσαι. Κρῆτες καὶ Σάμιοι H. with meaning as Lat. stertō `sore'.

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