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1 ἑλλέβορος
Grammatical information: m.Meaning: hellebore, Helleborus, Veratrum album' (Hp., Ar.; on the meaning Dawkins JournHellStud. 56, 3f.).Other forms: Ion. ἐλ-Compounds: As 1. member in ἑλλεβοροποσία `drinking ἑ.' (Hp.) ἑλλεβορο-σήματα plant name =- λειμώνιον (Ps.-Dsc. 4, 16); bahuvrihi: `plant, that shows Helleborus-symptoms', Strömberg Wortstudien 51.Derivatives: ἑλλεβορίνη `Herniaria glabra' (Thphr., Dsc.), ἑλλεβορίτης `κενταύρειον τὸ μικρόν' (Ps.-Dsc.), also name of a wine (Dsc., Plin.), vgl. Redard Les noms grecs en - της 71 and 96; denomin. verb ἑλλεβορίζω `treat with h., bring to sense' (Hp., D.) with ἑλλεβορισμός (Hp.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Taken as "eaten by deer" to ἐλλός ( ἑλλός) and βιβρώσκω (s. βορά), s. Strömberg Wortstudien 48ff. (full disc.). The ε remains problematic. - Suz. Amigues. in RPh 72, 1998, 125, who stresses that the plant is deadly. Suggestion to identify the first element with ἐσθλός; Girard, Connaissance...l'hellébore 1988 assumes original ἑλλο-, which is hardly correct. The etymology seems very doubtful to me; the word could well be non-IE, i.e. Pre-Greek. The double - λλ- will represent the phoneme -ly-, which at the same time explains the two first ε's: \/a\/ was pronounced [ä] in contact with the palatalized l, and [ä] is reproduced by ε; after the β it may have become ο; sowe have \/alyabar-\/.Page in Frisk: 1,499Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > ἑλλέβορος
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