ἐσίναντο

ἐσί̱ναντο, σίνομαι

harm: aor ind mp 3rd pl

ἐσί̱ναντο, σίνομαι

harm: aor ind mp 3rd pl

σίνομαι, [dialect] Aeol. [full] σίννομαι dub. in Sapph.12; [ per.] 2sg. [tense] pres. or [tense] aor. subj.

A

σίνηαι Od.12.139

: [dialect] Ion. [tense] impf. σινέσκετο, -οντο, Hes.Fr. 117, Od.6.6: [tense] fut. σινήσομαι f.l. in Hp.Mul.1.52: [tense] aor. [ per.] 3pl.

ἐσίναντο Hdt.8.31

,

- έατο Id.7.147

codd.:—codd. give a form [full] σινέομαι in Hdt.4.123, 5.81, Hp. Morb.4.41,53, etc.; but σίνομαι is the only form in Hom., and prob. should be restored everywhere:—[voice] Act. σίνω [dialect] Ion. for βλάπτω acc. to Gal.15.662; σίνομαι [voice] Pass., IG22.1126.42 (Amphict. Delph.), Orph. A. 211. [[pron. full] ῑ in the Verb (exc. perh. in Sapph.12); [pron. full] ῐ in σίνις, σίνος, ἀσῐνής.]

I harm, hurt, do one harm or mischief, Hom., only in Od. (but v. infr. 11, and cf. σίντης), of plunderers and marauders, οἵ σφεας σινέσκοντο, of the Cyclopes who used to plunder the Phaeacians, Od.6.6; ὅτε μοι σίνοιτό γ' ἑταίρους, of Scylla destroying Odysseus' comrades, 12.114; εἰ δέ κε σίνηαι (sc. Ἠελίου βόας) 11.112, cf.

ἀσινής; οὐ σινέσκετο καρπόν Hes.Fr. 117

; in later [dialect] Ep., ἀλώπηξ.. σινομένα τὰν τρώξιμον plundering the grapes, Theoc.1.49;

σ. ἔπαυλα καὶ.. ἄνδρας AP6.262

(Leon.), cf.A.R.1.951, 1260, etc.; in Prose, pillage, waste a country, Hdt.5.74, 6.97, 8.31;

τὴν Μηδικήν X.Cyr.5.5.4

; waste, destroy the crops, Hdt.1.17, 4.123;

αἰ δέ κα σίνηται [τοὺς καρπούς], ἀποτεισάτω τὰ ἐπιτίμια ὁ σινόμενος GDI5040.28

([place name] Crete), cf. Tab.Heracl.1.129, X.Cyr. 3.3.15;

ἐὰν ὑποζύγιον.. σίνηταί τι τῶν πέλας Pl.Lg. 936e

.

II generally, injure,

αἰδώς, ἥ τ' ἄνδρας μέγα σίνεται Hes.Op. 318

(interpol. in Il.24.45, v. Sch.), cf. Phld.Piet.p.93 G.; [

ὁ κροκόδειλος] οὐδὲν σ. τὸν τροχίλον Hdt.2.68

; τὴν ἕδραν τοῦ ἵππου μὴ ς. not to hurt his back, X. Eq.12.9, cf. Thphr.HP9.18.3; αἰ δὲ σίναιτο ἀφακεσάσθω if he damages the utensils, he must make it good, Mnemos.57.208 (Argos, vi B.C.); esp. in war, injure, harass,

σ. τὸν στρατόν Hdt.5.27

; τοὺς πολεμίους μέγα ς. Id.7.147, cf. 9.49, X.An.3.4.16; opp. ὠφελεῖν, Id.Lac.12.5.—Never in Trag., once in Pl., freq. in X.; once in non-literary Pap., BGU248.17 (i A.D.).

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to rob, to pillage, to destroy, to damage' (ep. Od., Sapph., Ion., X., hell. a. late, also Argos, Crete, Herakleia; Hdt., Hp. also - έομαι; not in Att..

Other forms: very rare in aor.: ἐσίναντο (Hdt.), ἐπεσίνατο (Nic.), προσίναντες βλάψαντες H.

Dialectal forms: rarely with ἐπι-, κατα-, προ-.

Compounds: As 1. member in σιν-όδων, - όδους, - οντος m. name of a fish (Arist., Dorio a. o.), folketymol. for συν- σίνομαι (s. Strömberg 45). Unclear however σινάμωρος approx. `harmful, baneful, wicked, mischievous, sweet-toothed, lustful' with - ία, - έω, - ευμα (Ion., com., Arist. a. o.); because of the short ι not to the verb, but to the noun σίνος; the final fits badly with μωρός, perh. better to ἐγχεσί-μωρος, if taken as `spear-happy' (cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 272 n. 18).

Derivatives: 1. σίνος n. `damage, harm, disaster' (Ion., A., Arist. a. o.) with ἀ-σινής `unharmed, harmless' (λ 110, Sapph., Ion., A., Pl., X., hell. a. late), opposite ἐπι-σινής (Thphr. a. o.). 2. σίντης m. `destroyer, robber', mostly of beasts of prey, `thief' (Il., hell. a. late epic); σίντωρ m. `id.' (Crete IV<sup>a</sup>, AP; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 123 a. 131); uncertain Σίντιες m. pl. name of the old population of Lemnos (Hom. a.o.), after Kretschmer Glotta 30, 117 prop. "the robbers" and to be distinguished from the Thracian Σιντοι. 3. Σίνις, - ιδος m. name of a mythical robber (B., E., X. a. o.), also appellat. `robber, destroyer' (A. Ag. 217 [gener. changed to ἶνις], Call., Lyc.). 4. σιναρός `damaged' (Hp., as ῥυπαρός a. o.). 5. σινότης f. `damage, flaw' (gloss.). 6. ἐπισίνιος ἐπίβουλος H. 7. σινόω ( προ- σίνομαι) = σίνομαι (Man., Vett. Val. a. o.) with σινωτικός `harmful' (late). 8. σίνδρων = πονηρός (Phot.), also `slave born of a slave' (Seleukos ap. Ath.), also as PN; cf. Masson on Hipponax 121 w. n. 3; gen. pl. σινδρῶν πονηρῶν, βλαπτικῶν H.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The present σίνομαι (second. - έομαι; cf. Schwyzer 721) wit generalized length of the ι (on the unclear σίνονται Sapph. 26, 4 s. Hamm Gramm. $217a) can be best understood as yotformation *σίν-ι̯ομαι (Schwyzer 694). If inherited, σίνομαι must like κλίνω, κρίνω contain a present-forming ν, which spread not only to the sporadic aoristforms but also to the nouns σίνος, σίντης a. o. -- Not certainly explained. PGr. *τϜι-ν- can on itself be connected with σής (if from *τϜη[ι̯]-ς) and with Germ. Þwi- in OE Þwīnan `become weak, disappear' a. o. (Wood Mod. Phil. 5, 268); apart from the semant. polyinterpretability of the relevant words, there are both for σής and for Þwīnan other explanations, s. on σής and WP. 1, 702 f. (Pok. 1054) w. lit. To be rejected explanations of σίνομαι in W.-Hofmann s. sine and sonium; older lit. in Bq and Lidén IF 19, 351 w. n. 2. -- Cf. σιφλός.

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