πωλύπιον

πωλύπιον, τό, Dim. of πώλυπος, Hp.Epid.2.6.29.

πωλύπιον

neut nom /voc /acc pl

πώλυπος (- ύπος)

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `sea-polyp, cuttlefish', metaph. `nose-polyp' (Hp., Thphr. a.o.); also (substant.) adj. τὰ πολύποδα `many-feet', of insects (Arist.).

Other forms: pl. - οι (Semon., Epich., Hp. [v. l.]), also πῶλυψ, - υπος (Diph. Siphn., Dsc., Poll.), πόλυψ, - υπος (Paul. Aeg.); more usu. πουλύπους, - ποδος (ε 432), acc. - πουν (Ion. trag. a.o.), also gen. - που etc. (Thgn. a.o.), πολύπους, - ποδος (Arist.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. porupode.

Derivatives: Dimin. πωλύπιον n. (Hp.).

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

Etymology: Mediterranean word of unknown origin. The form with ω, confirmed by Lat. LW [loanword] pōlypus, -i (since Plaut.), is clearly the oldest; from there πουλυ- and πολυ- folketymolog. after πολύς and πούς. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 164 n. 1 (w. older lit.), Specht KZ 59, 129. Note however that the inflexion with ποδ- is already attested in Mycenaean and in Homer. (Not in Furnée.)

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