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1 ηπύειν
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2 ἠπύειν
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3 ἤπιος
Grammatical information: adj.Meaning: `friendly, gentle, kind, mild, soothing' (Il.).Compounds: As 1. member e. g. in ἠπιό-φρων `with mild intention' (Emp.).Derivatives: ἠπιότης `mildness' (hell.) and the rare denominatives ἠπιόομαι `become mild' (Phld.), ἠπιαίνω `id.' (Arist. Mu. 397b1; uncertain).Etymology: Mostly connected with Skt. āpí- `friend' (Froehde BB 21, 330, L. Meyer a. o.; cf. Kretschmer Glotta 11, 109), sometimes at the same time invoking Skt. āpnóti `desire' (Prellwitz KZ 47, 300ff.). Others compare Lat. pius (Rozwadowski, Glotta 4, 344) or ἅπτω (Würtheim, Glotta 19, 176: improbable) or even ἠπύειν, with also νήπιος (Lacroix Mélanges Desrousseaux 261ff.). - On ἠπίαλος s. v.Page in Frisk: 1,641Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > ἤπιος
См. также в других словарях:
ἠπύειν — ἠπύ̱ειν , ἠπύω call to pres inf act (attic epic) … Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)
