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1 κότταβος
Grammatical information: m.Meaning: `name of a game coming from Sicily, whereby the player from a cup throws the rest of the wine against a target, to wit either against a slice which is in balance on a bar like a lighter, which falls (soc. κότταβος κατακτός) or against an empty saucer, which swims in a basin with water and sinks when hit (κ. ἐν λεκάνῃ or δι' ὀξυβάφων). However κότταβος indicated not only the game itself, but also several objects and movements used. (Anakr., Pi., trag., com., hell.)Other forms: (ion. - σσ-)Derivatives: κοτταβίς f. `cup with two handles, for throwing' (hell.); κοτταβεῖον (- βιον) `kottabos-basin, -stander' (Dikaiarch., hell.), also `winner's prize at k.' (Com.); κοτταβικη ῥάβδος `k.-bar' (hell.). Denomin. verb κοτταβίζω `play k.' (Ar., Antiph.), euphem. for `vomit' (Poll., EM), also with ἀπο-, κατα-, συν- (X., com.); from there κοττάβισις, ( ἀπο-)κοτταβισμός (late).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: As the original meaning of κότταβος is unknown, all etymologies are in the air. In form one compares: κοτ(τ)ίς `head, back of the head', κόττειν τύπτειν H., κόττος `κύβος etc.' (s. vv.). - Studniczka BphW 14, 1299 and K. Schneider P.-W. 11: 2, 1529 understand `provide with a head' referring to the slice ( πλάστιγξ) above on the kottabos-stander. But Mastrelli Boll. di Studi fil. e ling. sic. 5 (1957), Estr. 25ff. starts from κόττος `κύβος, cube', older app. `ἀστράγαλος, swivel'; with κότταβος would be meant the curve of the hand when throwing the cup. The origin would lie in the western Mediterranean (cf. on κοττίς). - Lat. LW [loanword] cottabus `slapping blow' (Plaut.; cf. Friedmann Die jon. u. att. Wörter im Altlatein 46ff.). See κότταβος Mastrelli l. c., a. K. Schneider in P.-W. 11: 2, 1528ff. Cf. also on κοτύλη. The ττ\/σσ points to a Pre-Greek word.Page in Frisk: 1,932Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > κότταβος
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2 σφαῖρα
Grammatical information: f.Meaning: `sphere, ball, balls in a boxing-glove, globe' (Od.).Compounds: Compp., e.g. σφαιρο-ειδής `spherical' (IA.), ἐπί-σφαιρα n. pl. `leather coating of boxing-balls, boxing-gloves', also of the cover of the point of a sword (Plb., Plu.).Derivatives: 1. σφαιρ-ηδόν `like a ball, sphere' (Ν 204 a. o.) 2. - ίον dimin. (Pl. Ep., hell. a. late). 3. - εύς m. des. of young men in Sparta (after the boxing-gloves; Paus., inscr.; Bosshardt 75). 4. - ικός (Archyt., Arist. etc.; Chantraine Études 131 f.), - ειος (Arist.-comm.) `spherical'. 5. - ῖτις κυπάρισσος (Gal.; after the form of the fruits?, cf. Redard 77); *-ίτης ( ἄρτος) in Lat. spaerīta m. kind of cake (Cato; Leumann Sprache 1, 206 = Kl. Schr. 173). 6. - ών, - ῶνος m. `round fishing-net' (Opp.), 7. - ίζω ( ἀντι-, δια-, συν-) `to play at ball' (Att.; φαιρίδδειν σφαιρίζειν H.) with - ισις (Arist.), - ισμός (Artem.), - ισμα (Eust.) `ball-game', - ιστής `ball-player', - ιστικός `belonging to a ball-game', - ιστήριον `ball-court, -house', - ίστρα `id.' (hell. a. late). 8. - όομαι, - όω ( ἀπο-, δια-, ἐν-) `to be round, to round off, to provide with a round edge' (X., Arist., hell. a. late) with - ωμα `rounded body' (Arist. a.o.), - ωσις `sphere-formation' (late), - ωτήρ, - ῆρος m. "rounded object", `knob, bulb or such' (Tab. Heracl., hell. pap.); s. Solmsen IF 31, 492ff.Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Formation like πεῖρα, σπεῖρα, μοῖρα a.o. (s. vv. w. lit.). -- No agreement outside Greek. If prop. referring to the quick movement of a ball, one could connect σφαῖρα to σπαίρω a. cognates; s. v. w. further lit. Attempts, to explains the variation σπ- σφαῖρα σφ-, in Hiersche Ten. aspiratae 196 f. [improbable] Cf. also σφῦρα, σφυρόν and σπύραθοι, σπυράδες [Pre-Greek]. -- From σφαῖρα Syr. êspērō, Aethiop. ṣpīr (Schwyzer 159 a. 161), Arm. sp`er̄ (from where Georg. spero; Bailey Trans. Phil. Soc. 1945, 28). On σφαῖρα in gen. s. Hommel Gymn. 56, 201 ff., S. Mendner Das Ballspiel im Leben der Völker (Münster 1956) 77ff. -- Connection with σπαίρω is improbable.Page in Frisk: 2,826-827Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > σφαῖρα
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3 στυφοκόπος
στῠφοκόπος, ὁ,= ὀρτυγοκόπος, player of the game described by Phot., Suid. s.h.v., Ar.Av. 1299 ( στυφοκόμπου codd. and Sch., but cf. Poll.7.136, 9.107: Dionysius ap. Sch.Ar. read (or conjectured) ὀρτυγοκόμπου: στυφοκόμποςA = ὁ μάχιμος ἀλεκτρυών acc. to Hsch.).Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > στυφοκόπος
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4 χελιχελώνη
χελιχελώνη, ἡ, a girls' game, in which a ring was formed round a player called χελώνη, Poll.9.125, Eust.1914.54. The χελι- seems to be merely an iteration of the first syll. in χελώνη; cf. Carm.Pop. 21 (written χέλει χ. Eust.l.c.).Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > χελιχελώνη
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