-
1 ἕρπω
Grammatical information: v.Meaning: `crawl, slink, go on all four', Dor. also `go' in gen. (Il.).Compounds: very often with prefix, e. g. ἀν-, εἰσ-, ἐξ-, ἐφ-, προσ-. As 1. member in ἑρπ-άκανθα = ἄκανθος (Ps.-Dsc.).Derivatives: εΏρπετόν n. `animal that goes, crawls on all fours' as opposed to birds ( πετεινά) and men (Ion.-Att., δ 418; Aeol. ὄρπετον with zero grade, cf. below; on the formation Schwyzer 502, Chantraine Formation 299); ἕρπης, - ητος m. `shingles(?)' (Hp.; Schwyzer 499, Chantraine 267), ἑρπήν, - ῆνος m. `id.' (Ph.; after λειχήν a. o.; also ἑρπήνη EM) with ἑρπηνώδης (Ph.); ἕρπηλα a shell-fish (Ath.; form uncertain); ἑρπηδών, - όνος f. `crawling' (Nic.; Chantraine 360f.); ἑρπηστής `crawling animals' (Nic., AP; rare like τευχηστής a. o.; Chantraine 317); - ἕρπυλλος m. f. `tufted thyme' (Com.; after it Lat. serpullum) with ἑρπύλλ-ιον, - άριον `id.' and ἑρπυλλίς `grasshopper' (H.; cf. Strömberg Wortstudien 17); uncertain ἑρπυξή (Dsc. 3, 69; after πύξος?; Strömberg Pflanzennamen 111). - ἕρψις `crawling' (Pl., Arist.). - An expressive enlargement is ἑρπύζω `crawl' (Il.; cf. Schwyzer 736, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 336), to which belongs the Attic aorist ἑρπύσαι (after ἐρύσαι, ἑλκύσαι?); from there ἑρπυστικός (Hp., Arist.) and rare and late ἕρπυσις, - υσμός, - υστήρ, - υστής, - υστάζω. - On ὅρπηξ `sprout, twig' s. v.Etymology: ἕρπω is identical with Skt. sárpati `id.', Lat. serpō `id.'. The zero grade in Aeol. ὄρπετον also in the Skt. thematic root aorist á-sr̥p-at. Several languages have derived indications of the snake: Skt. sarpá- m., Lat. serpens, Alb. gjarpër. - On meaning and spread of ἕρπω Bloch Suppl. Verba 71ff. Details in W.-Hofmann and Ernout-Meillet s. serpō.Page in Frisk: 1,565-566Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > ἕρπω
Перевод: с греческого на все языки
со всех языков на греческий- Со всех языков на:
- Греческий
- С греческого на:
- Английский