tarpassa

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `attendant, companion' (Il.).

Other forms: Aeol. - ονος [gramm.]; s. below; also θαραπ- Fur. 352, prob. recent. Note θεραπν-. Also θέραψ, - απος.

Derivatives: Diminutive θεραπόντιον (D. L.). θεράπαινα f. `servant, maid' (IA), with θεραπαινίς, - ίδιον (Pl., Men.); also θεράπνη `id.' (h. Ap. 157; s. below) with θεραπνίς (AP); unclear θεραποντίς adjunct of φερνή (A. Supp. 979). - Also θέραψ, - απος m., mostly plur. `id.' (E.) with θεράπιον (Hyp.), - πίς (Pl. Mx. 244e). Denomin. verb θεραπεύω `serve, honour, care for, heal' (since ν 265) with several nouns: θεραπεία, Ion. - ηΐη, θεράπευμα `serving etc.' (IA), θεράπευσις `id.' (Phld.); θεραπευτής `servant' (IA) with θεραπευτικός (Pl., X., Arist.), also θεραπευτήρ (X., Aristox.; prob. Dorian, Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 54f.) with θεραπευτρίς (Ph.), - εύτρια (EM); θεραπήϊος = θεραπευτικός (AP), - ηΐς f. (Orac. ap. Jul. Ep. 88b).

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

Etymology: Except as `servant' θεράπνη in Eur. and successors means also `dwelling, habitation' ( θεράπναι αὑλῶνες, σταθμοί H.), which reminds of δοῦλος ἡ οἰκία H. (cf. s. v.); one might assume the meaning `house', coll. `servants'. From θεράπνη `house' we can hardly separate Laconian GN Θεράπνα, - ναι; this points to Pre-Greek origin of the whole group. Kretschmer Glotta 28, 269f. (also id. Glotta 24, 90ff.; on meaning and spread also E. Kretschmer Glotta 18, 72ff.) wrongly sees it as "protoindogermanische" variant of τέραμνα; (with θέραψ Lat. trabs `beam' would be cognate). Thus v. Windekens Le Pélasgique 89f. But θεράπνη can be derived from θεράπων (s. Sommer Nominalkomp. 145; on the secondary ντ-stem cf. θεράπαινα and Schwyzer 526 w. n. 3); cf. Schwyzer 489 w. n. 4. - N. van Brock, Rev. Hitt. As. 959, 117-126 compares Hitt. tarpassa.

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