ἄλθα θερμασία η θεραπεία

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `become whole and sound' (Hp.)

Other forms: ἄλθετο (Il.). Fut. ἀλθήσομαι, - σω (Il.). ἀλθεῖν ὑγιάζειν (Hp. ap. Gal. 19, 76). ἄλθα θερμασία η θεραπεία H.; ἄλθος φάρμακον EM; ἀλθεύς ἰατρός H.; ἀλθαίνει αὔξει, θεραπεύει, ὑγιαίνει φάρμακον γὰρ ἄλθος H.

Derivatives: The fut. ἀλθέξομαι (Aret.) perh. formed after its opposite πυρέξομαι of πυρέσσω (but Chantr. comments: "l'hypothése reste en l'air"; cf. συναλθάσσομαι; ἄλθεξις. On these forms Van Brock, Vocab. médical 198 - 207 ("capricieuses formations", all late). ἀλθεστήρια `medicine' (Nic.), cf. χαριστήρια, etc. (Chantr. Form. 63f.). - ἀλθαία plant name `marsh mallow', Thphr.; cf. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 81 (partly incorrect). On Ἄλθηπος, also Ἄλθηφος, Bechtel Hermes 56, 228 and the mythical name Άλθαία, s. below.

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [26] * h₂el- `grow'

Etymology: Άλθαίνω is connected with the root in ἄναλτος (q.v.) (Schwyzer 703 β). Cf. ἀλδαίνω. Chantr. notes that the word is originally used of the growth of damaged tissue; he translates ἄλθετο χείρ with "le bras se guérit". - However, the meaning `heal' is not evidently connected with ἀλ- `grow, feed'; the glosses give systematically the meaning `heal' etc.; θεραπεία means also `medical or surgical treatment'; θερμασία is less clear (false reading?); αὔξει also deviates (is it for ἀλδαίνω?). - The name Ἄλθηπ\/ φος is clearly Pre-Greek (cf. the river Αἴσηπος); so may be Άλθαία (the suffix - αια, - εια is also known in Pre-Greek); but we cannot be sure that the names belong to the verb. - An alternative etymology connects Skt. r̥dhnóti `obtain luckily', Rix MSS 27 (1970) 88 and Mayrhofer EWAia 1, 118.

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A = ἱερεύς, Hsch. [full] ἄλθα· θερμασία (i.e. ἀλέα) ἢ θεραπεία, Id.