ὀπο-κάρπᾰσον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: name of `a plant with poisonous sap', `white hellebore, Veratrum album' (med., Orph.);

Dialectal forms: Myc. women's names Kapasija, Kapatija

Compounds: ὀπο-κάρπασον (Dsc.; Lat. opocarpathon) = ὀπὸς καρπάσου (= Lat. sucus carpathi, Plin.), after ὀπο-βάλσαμον; ξυλο-κάρπασον (Gal.) after ξυλο-βάλσαμον (Risch IF 59, 287).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Lat. carpathum with th for - σ- points to foreign (mediterranean) origin; both forms already in Myc. A form with dental is found also in the name of the island Κάρπαθος, which was named after the plant (Bogiatzides Άθ. 29, 72ff.); here also the PlN Καρπασία (Cyprus). The s-form also came in Latin ( carpasum, carbasa). - Derivation from καρπός (Brugmann Sächs. Ber. 1899, 185) is of course unthinkable. - The variation θ \/ σ is typical for Pre-Greek and points to a -t^y-.

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ὀπο-κάρπᾰσον, τό,

A = ὀπὸς καρπάσου (v.

κάρπασος 11

), Dsc.Alex.Praef.; opocarpatum, Plin.HN28.158,32.98.