διφθέρα: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[prepared skin]], [[hide]], [[leather]], also leather objects (Ion.-Att.);<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[diptera]] ([[diptera₃]]) [[leather]] \/[[diphthera]]\/; [[dipteraporo]] \/<b class="b2">diphthera-phoros</b>?\/<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">διφθέριον</b> (Theognost.); <b class="b3">διφθερίς</b> = <b class="b3">διφθέρα</b> (AP); <b class="b3">διφθέρωμα</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Thd.;); <b class="b3">διφθερίας</b> <b class="b2">man in leathern jerkin, landmann etc.</b> (Com.; Chantraine 93); f. <b class="b3">διφθερῖτις</b> (Poll.; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 114); <b class="b3">διφθεράριος</b> [[pergamentmaker]] (Edict. Diocl. Asin.); <b class="b3">διφθέρινος</b> <b class="b2">made of δ., leathern</b> (X.). - Denomin. <b class="b3">διφθερόομαι</b> [[be dressed in hides]] (Str.). Note <b class="b3">διψάρα δέλτος</b>, <b class="b3">οἱ δε διφθέρα</b> H. (cf Schwyzer 326).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: To <b class="b3">δέφω</b>, <b class="b3">δέψω</b> (de Saussure MSL 7, 91). <b class="b3">ε</b>\/<b class="b3">ι</b> is frequent in Pre-Greek (there was no phoneme [[e]]). <b class="b3">δίψαρα</b> shows typical Pre-Greek variation. Fur. 308, 326. - On Iranian LW [loanword] from <b class="b3">διφθέρα</b>, i.e. NPers. [[daftar]] [[office]], s. Bailey, Trans. Phil. Soc. 1933, 50. From here Lat. [[littera]], perhaps via Etruscan (cf. <b class="b3">διφθεραλοιφός γραμματοδιδάσκαλος παρὰ Κυπρίοις Η</b>.)