ἱδρώττω

Grammatical information: m., (f.)

Meaning: `sweat', also metaph. of other wetness (Il.).

Other forms: ep. dat. -ῳ̃, acc. -ῶ (cf. below)

Compounds: Rarely in compp., e. g. ἱδρωτο-ποιέω (Arist.), δυσ-ίδρως `with bad sweat, difficulty of getting sweat' (Thphr.), also with transition in the o-declination, e. g. κάθ-ιδρος `covered with sweat' (LXX).

Derivatives: Dimin. ἱδρώτιον (Hp.); ἱδρώεις `sweaty' (B.), ἱδρώδης `acconpanied with sweating' (Hp.), ἱδρωτικός `sudorific' (Hp., Thphr.); ἱδρῶα (?) pl. `heat-spots, pustules' (Hp. Aph. 3, 21; reading uncertain) with ἱδρω-τάρια, - τίδες `id.' (medic.; cf. Strömberg Wortstudien 102); ἱδρώιον `sweat-towel' (pap.); ἱδροσύναι pl. `efforts that produce sweat' (poet. inscr. Phrygia, Rom. empire). Denominative verbs: ἱδρώω `sweat' (Il.) with ἵδρωσις `sweating' (late) and ἱδρωτήρια pl. `sudorifics' (Paul. Aeg.); ἱδρώττω `id.' (Gal.; s. Schwyzer 732).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1043] * sueid- `sweat'

Etymology: With ἱδρώς agrees Arm. k` irtn `sweat', which is based on an r-stem *su̯id-r-, which is also found in Latv. swiêdri pl., Alb. dirsë `sweat'. This r-stem was in Greek combined with an ō̆s-stem, which is seen in Lat. sūdor, if from *su̯oidōs. Like γέλως, ἔρως a. o. ἱδρώς was later tansformed to a τ-stem (Schwyzer 514). The s-stem is still seen in ep. acc. ἱδρῶ (to be read as - όα? Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 54), perh. also in dat. ἱδρῳ̃, if for - οῖ (doubtful; s. Chantraine 1, 211), and in several derivv.: ἱδρώ-ω, ἱδρώεις (s. Schwyzer 527; on this form, \< *- os-uent, Ruijgh, Lingua 28 (1971) 173), ἱδρώιον. - On the absence of the digamma in Hom. cf. on ἐμέω (other explanations are not better, Chantraine 1, 156). Cf. ἰδίω.

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