γοργός: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[grim]], [[fierce]], [[terrible]] of look, gaze (A.), later also [[vigorous]]<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">Γοργώ</b>, acc. pl. <b class="b3">Γοργούς</b> (Hes.)<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">γοργώψ</b>. <b class="b3">γοργωπός</b>.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">γοργότης</b> [[rapidity]] (Hermog.), <b class="b3">γοργία</b> = agilitas (Gloss.), denom. <b class="b3">γοργόομαι</b> <b class="b2">be spirited</b>, of horses (X.), <b class="b3">γοργεύω</b> (pap., Sm., H.). - <b class="b3">Γοργώ</b>, <b class="b3">-οῦς</b> f. (Il.) name of a female monster with petrifying look, with <b class="b3">Γοργ-είη κεφαλή</b> (Il.; form. s. Schulze Q. 254); pl. mostly. <b class="b3">Γοργόνες</b> (Hes.), with new singulars <b class="b3">Γοργόνα</b> (acc.) etc. (E.), with <b class="b3">Γοργόνειος</b> (A. Pr. 793 etc.), <b class="b3">Γοργόνη</b> (Hdn.), <b class="b3">Γοργονώδης</b> (Sch.) and the plant names <b class="b3">Γοργόνειον</b> and <b class="b3">Γοργονιάς</b> (Ps.-Dsc.; s. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 101). - Also <b class="b3">Γοργάδες</b> (S. Fr. 163), by H. explained as <b class="b3">ἁλιάδες</b>; and <b class="b3">Γοργίδες αἱ Ώκεανίδες</b> H. - PN <b class="b3">Γοργυθίων Θ</b> 302 (form.?) and <b class="b3">Γοργίας</b> with <b class="b3">Γοργίειος</b> <b class="b2">Gorgias-like</b> (X.) and <b class="b3">γοργιάζω</b> <b class="b2">speak like G.</b> (Philostr.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Osthoff Etym. parerga 1, 44ff. connected OIr. <b class="b2">garg(g</b>) [[raw]], [[wild]], OCS [[groza]] [[shiver]]) and Pedersen KZ 39, 379 (Arm. [[karcr]] [[hard]]). Leumann Hom. Wörter 154f. thinks it is a backformation from <b class="b3">γοργώψ</b> (<b class="b3">γοργῶπις</b>), <b class="b3">γοργωπός</b> (A.); so <b class="b3">Γοργὡ</b> would be the basis, which like <b class="b3">Μορμώ</b> seems a popular reduplicated formation; accepted by DELG.

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