ᾰϜορον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `hen-roost, acrobat's bar, -framework, high platform, public notice-board' (Ar. Fr. 839, inscr. IV^a, hell.).

Other forms: - αυρον, πέντευρον s. bel.

Derivatives: πετεύρ-ιον n. `small notice-board' (Erythrae IV<sup>a</sup>), - ίζομαι `to use a π.' = `to act as an acrobat' (Phld.), with - ισμός, - ιστής, - ιστήρ (Plu., Man.).

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

Etymology: Technical expression without certain etymology. After Kretschmer KZ 31, 449 from πετα- (= πεδα-, s.v.) and αὔρα `air'; similar Baunack Phil. 70, 469 and Schwyzer 198 (Schw.-Debr. 498 n. 2; cf. also Prellwitz): from *πετᾱ(Ϝ)ορον as byform of πεδα(Ϝ)ορον = μετέωρον. On the contrary Persson Beitr. 2, 825 n. 7 with Lobeck tries to find connection with πέτομαι (prop. *"instrument to fly"[?]); formation then like ἄλευρον (Benveniste Origines 112). The hesitation ευ: αυ is also diff. interpreted; ευ hypercorrect for αυ (Schwyzer l.c.); from - ᾰϜορον resp. - ηϜορον (Baunack l.c.). -- Lat. LW [loanword] petaurum, - aurista with - auristānus, - aurārius (W.-Hofmann s.v.; there also lit.). -- Pre-Greek Furnée 353; there is also πέντευρον H. (Furnée 291).

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