zverь

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `wild animal, beast of prey' (Il.).

Other forms: Aeol. φήρ, - ρός

Compounds: Compp., e. g. θηρο-φόνος `killing wild' (Thgn.), Θηρε-φόνα (Paus. 5, 3, 3; on the comp. vowel - ε- Schwyzer 438); ἔν-θηρος `full of wild' (trag.), ἄ-θηρος (Hdt., A.) `without wild', also `without hunting' (from θήρα; Sommer Nominalkomp. 149f.).

Derivatives: θηρίον `wild animal, hunted animal' (Od.; Wackernagel Unt. 218; orig. soothing diminutive, Sieberer Sprache 2, 112); posthhom. also `animal', with several derivv.: diminut. θηρίδιον (Thphr.), θηρά̄φιον (Damokr. ap. Gal.; Wackernagel Glotta 4, 243f.); prob. as backformation, θήραφος `spider' (Cyren. 62; acc. to Strömberg Wortstudien 23 as "hunted animal" from θήρα, θηρᾶν); θηριακός `regarding the enimals' (medic.), θηριώδης `full of wild animals, animal-like' (IA); θηριότης `being of an animal' (Arist); denomin.: 1. θηριόομαι, - όω `be changed into an animal' (Pl., Eub.) with θηρίωσις (Luc.); beside it θηρίωμα `malignant ulcer' from θηρίον `id.' (medic.); 2. θηριάζομαι `id.' ( Corp. Herm. 10, 20). - θήρειος `belonging to (the) wild (animals ' (IA). - Denominative verbs: 1. θηράω `hunt' (A.), perf. ptc. πεφειράκοντες (Thess.); from there θηρατήρ, - άτωρ (- ρητ-) `hunter' (Il.; on - τήρ: - τωρ Benveniste Noms d'agent 46 with the objections of Fraenkels Gnomon 22, 161) with θηρατήριος (S.); also θηρατής `id.' (Ar.) mit θηρατικός (X.); θήραμα `hunting booty' (E.), θήρατρον `apparatus for hunting, net' (X.); θηράσιμος `worth the hunting, the trying' (A. Pr. 858; cf. Arbenz Die Adj. auf - ιμος 63). Here also as backformation θήρα `hunt, booty' (Il.) with θηροσύνη `id.' (Opp., AP), θηρότις θηρεύτρια H. (after ἀγρότις). As 2. member - θήρας, e. g. ὀρνιθο-θήρας `birdcatcher' (Ar., Arist.). 2. θηρεύω `hunt' (τ 465) with θηρευτής `hunt' (Il.), θηρευτικός (Ar., X., Arist.), also θηρευτήρ (Opp.), f. θηρεύτρια (pap.), θήρευμα `hunting booty' (S., E., Pl.), θήρευσις `hunt' (Ph). - See Chantraine Ét. sur le vocab. grec 65ff.; also Fraenkel Nom. ag. (s. index); and Porzig Satzinhalte 234.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [493] *ǵʰueh₁r- `wild animal

Etymology: With the pluralforms θῆρες, θηρῶν agree exactly the East Lith. forms žvė́res, žvėrų̃, IE *ǵhu̯ēr-es, -om; with transform. to the i-declension sing. Lith. žverìs, OCS zvěrь `id.'. Beside it with short stemvowel Lat. fĕrus `wild'. Details in W.-Hofmann s. ferus, Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. s. zverь; Pok. 493.

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