πυρρ-ίας

πυρρ-ίας, ου, ὁ,

A red-coloured serpent, Hsch.

II Redhead, common name of a slave, prop. of the red-haired slaves from Thrace, Ar.Ra. 730, etc.; cf.

πυρρός 11

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Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `blazing red, tawny', esp. of hair (of the head) and haircovering, `red' (IA.; poet.).

Other forms: πυρσός (E., Mosch.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. puwo, -wa, - wino Gallavotti Par. del Pass. 12, 11.

Compounds: Compp., e.g. πυρρό- ( πυρσό-)θριξ `red-haired' (E. in lyr., Arist., Poll.), ἐπί-πυρρος `reddish' (Arist., Thphr. a.o.; Strömberg Prefix Stud. 106).

Derivatives: 1. many popular-expressive formations: πυρρίας m. `red-haired man', esp. of slaves (Ar.), ΠυρϜίας PN (Corinth VI<sup>a</sup>; Latte Glotta 35, 296f.), ΠυρϜαλίων PN (Argos; Schulze Kl. Schr. 115 w. n. 3); πυρράκης `with reddish hair-colour', "redskin" (LXX, hell. pap.), πυρρίχος `red', of a bull (Theoc.), also as PN; from this πυρρίχη f. n. of a weapondance (Att.) with - ίχιος, - ιχίζω a.o.? 2. πύρρ-α f. n. of a bird (Ael.), - αία f. `red robe?' (Halic. III^a). 3. πυρρό-της f. `red hair-colour' (Arist.). 4. verbs: πυρσ-αίνω `to colour red' (E. in lyr. a.o.), πυρρ-ίζω (LXX), - άζω (Ev. Matt.) `to be red', of heaven, - ιάω `to redden, to blush' (late).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The relation of the Cor. horsename ΠυρϜος (Myc. Puwo, -wa, - wino? Gallavotti Par. del Pass. 12, 11) and ΠυρϜ-ίας, - αλίων (s. ab.) to IA. πυρρός, is not quite clear, as a PGr. *πυρϜος should have given in IA. *πῠρός\/πῡρος. Therefore one posits since Hoffmann Dial. 3, 589 (s. also Schwyzer 335 f.) usually PGr. *πυρσϜός. πυρρός for *πῡ̆ρός through expressive gemination? On the Ϝο-sufflx in colour-adj. Chantraine Form. 123, Schwyzer 472; on the phonetics also Lejeune Traité de phon. 119 n. 2, Forbes Glotta 36, 262f. Further s. πῦρ [?] and πυρσός (s.v. πῦρ and s.v.). Diff. Schulze Kl. Schr. 115f.: to Lith. pur̃vas `dirt, muck'; on this Fraenkel s.v. w. further lit. -- On derivv. from πυρρός in Lat. a. Rom. Kahane Glotta 39, 133 ff.

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