σπύραθοι

Grammatical information: pl.

Meaning: `droppings of goats and sheep' (Hp., Dsc.).

Other forms: πύραθοι (Nic.) and s. below.

Derivatives: Dimin. σπυράθια pl. (Dsc.; trad. - ίθια); collective σφυραθία f. (Poll.; cf. κοπρία); adj. σπυραθώδης `like sheep's droppings' (Hp.). -- Besides σπυράδες f. pl. `pills' (Hp.), σφυράδες f. pl. = σπύραθοι (Ar., Arist.). Also σπόρθυγγες αἱ συνεστραμμέναι μετὰ ῥύπου τρίχες and σπορθύγγια τρίβολα. τὰ διαχωρή\<μα\> τα τῶν αἰγῶν, ἅ τινες σπυράδας καλοῦσιν H. Note also σπύρδαρα (Poll. 5, 91).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably] from LW [loanword]X[probably] Eur.

Etymology: On the variation σπ- σπύραθοι σφ- Hiersche Ten. asp. 201; on the variation σπ- σπύραθοι π- Strunk IF 66, 158f. With σπύραθοι cf. except σπέλεθος, ὄνθος also ψάμαθοι `Sandkörner'; σπυράδες like λιθάδες, ἰσχάδες a. o. -- Old popular expressions of agriculture. The basic ο- or ᾱ-stem to be supposed is found in Baltic: Lith. spirà, mostly pl. spìros f. `dropping(s), droppings of goat, hare, pea-formed excrements of small animals', Latv. spiras `excrements of sheep, goats etc., great beans'; both Gr. - υρ- and Balt. - ir- represent syllabic r̥ [this not true]. -- Beside this with full grade and dental suffix σπορθ-υγγες like NIsl. sparð n. `excrements of sheep', sperðill m. `- of goats' from IE * spordh-. -- Further connection with σπαίρω a. cognates seems illustrated a. o. by Norw. dial. sprall `excremental balls of goats and sheep', spralla `cacare, of sheep' beside sprala, OHG spratalōn `sprawl', s. WP. 2, 672 w. lit. - The word ( σ)π\/ φυρ-αθ\/δ- is Pre-Geek but the root resembles words in northern Europe; was the word taken over from a Eur. substratum?

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σπύραθος

fem nom /voc pl

Grammatical information: m. f.

Meaning: `cusp, tine (of an antler), fang, cape etc.' (S., Com. Adesp., Lyc., AP a.o.).

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

Etymology: Like the synonym στόνυξ an isolated poetic word with formation like φάρυγξ, σπῆλυγξ, σπόρθυγγες (s. σπύραθοι) a.o. from στόρθη τὸ ὀξὑ τοῦ δόρατος, καὶ ἐπιδορατίς H., which differs from OWNo. stirðr `stiff, unbending', storð f. `grass, green stalk' (IE * sterdh- or stert-, resp. str̥dh-, str̥t-) only in ablaut. Beside it with IE -d- a.o. OWNo. stertr m. `bird's tail', OHG a. NHG Sterz. Further forms w. lit. in Bq and WP 2, 630, Pok. 1023f. -- Finally to στερεός etc. (s. v.). -- No doubt a Pre-Greek word. (The etym. proposed has nothing to recommend it.) (Not in Furnée.)

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `sphere, ball, balls in a boxing-glove, globe' (Od.).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. σφαιρο-ειδής `spherical' (IA.), ἐπί-σφαιρα n. pl. `leather coating of boxing-balls, boxing-gloves', also of the cover of the point of a sword (Plb., Plu.).

Derivatives: 1. σφαιρ-ηδόν `like a ball, sphere' (Ν 204 a. o.) 2. - ίον dimin. (Pl. Ep., hell. a. late). 3. - εύς m. des. of young men in Sparta (after the boxing-gloves; Paus., inscr.; Bosshardt 75). 4. - ικός (Archyt., Arist. etc.; Chantraine Études 131 f.), - ειος (Arist.-comm.) `spherical'. 5. - ῖτις κυπάρισσος (Gal.; after the form of the fruits?, cf. Redard 77); *-ίτης ( ἄρτος) in Lat. spaerīta m. kind of cake (Cato; Leumann Sprache 1, 206 = Kl. Schr. 173). 6. - ών, - ῶνος m. `round fishing-net' (Opp.), 7. - ίζω ( ἀντι-, δια-, συν-) `to play at ball' (Att.; φαιρίδδειν σφαιρίζειν H.) with - ισις (Arist.), - ισμός (Artem.), - ισμα (Eust.) `ball-game', - ιστής `ball-player', - ιστικός `belonging to a ball-game', - ιστήριον `ball-court, -house', - ίστρα `id.' (hell. a. late). 8. - όομαι, - όω ( ἀπο-, δια-, ἐν-) `to be round, to round off, to provide with a round edge' (X., Arist., hell. a. late) with - ωμα `rounded body' (Arist. a.o.), - ωσις `sphere-formation' (late), - ωτήρ, - ῆρος m. "rounded object", `knob, bulb or such' (Tab. Heracl., hell. pap.); s. Solmsen IF 31, 492ff.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: Formation like πεῖρα, σπεῖρα, μοῖρα a.o. (s. vv. w. lit.). -- No agreement outside Greek. If prop. referring to the quick movement of a ball, one could connect σφαῖρα to σπαίρω a. cognates; s. v. w. further lit. Attempts, to explains the variation σπ- σφαῖρα σφ-, in Hiersche Ten. aspiratae 196 f. [improbable] Cf. also σφῦρα, σφυρόν and σπύραθοι, σπυράδες [Pre-Greek]. -- From σφαῖρα Syr. êspērō, Aethiop. ṣpīr (Schwyzer 159 a. 161), Arm. sp`er̄ (from where Georg. spero; Bailey Trans. Phil. Soc. 1945, 28). On σφαῖρα in gen. s. Hommel Gymn. 56, 201 ff., S. Mendner Das Ballspiel im Leben der Völker (Münster 1956) 77ff. -- Connection with σπαίρω is improbable.

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σφρυραθία etc.

See also: s. σπύραθοι.

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