κρόταφος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m., usu. pl.<br />Meaning: [[temple]], metaph. <b class="b2">side, profile, steep mountain-slope</b> (Il.). Byforms with metathesis: <b class="b3">κόρταφος</b> (Pl.Kom.[?; Maas KZ 46,159], EM, Et. Gud.), <b class="b3">κότραφος</b> (PMag. Osl. 1, 152).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">πολιο-κρόταφος</b> [[with gray temples]] (Θ 518).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κροταφίς</b> f. [[pointed hammer]] (Att. inscr., Poll., H.; on the meaning below), <b class="b3">κροτάφιος</b> [[of the temples]] (Gal.), <b class="b3">κροταφίτης</b> <b class="b2">temple-muscel</b> (medic.; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 101), f. pl. <b class="b3">-ίτιδες</b> (<b class="b3">πληγαί</b> Hp.). Denomin. <b class="b3">κροταφίζω</b> <b class="b2">strike on the temple, box on the ear</b> (pap.) with <b class="b3">κροταφιστής</b> (Gloss., H. s. <b class="b3">κόβαλος</b>).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Generally (e.g. Brugmann Grundr.2 2, 1, 390) derived from <b class="b3">κρότος</b> as "the knocking (of the veins in the temples)". Because of the meaning of <b class="b3">κρότος</b> <b class="b2">the knocking which one hears, noise</b> <b class="b3">κρόταφος</b> cannot refer to the beating of the veins which one sees (Pedersen KZ 39,237 A. 1, Benveniste Mél. Vendryes 56), but must refers to the inner noise, we hear; s. Frisk GHÅ. 57 : 4, 18 f. with a diff. hypothesis: <b class="b3">κρόταφος</b> prop. "Totschlag, Stelle des Totschlages" (cf. <b class="b3">κόλαφος</b>) like rom. dial. [[abattin]] [[temples]]; so <b class="b3">κροταφίς</b> prop. "Schläfengerät"? Thus also Wüst [[Ρῆμα]] 1, 11 ff. - Fur. 257 connects <b class="b3">κόρση</b> [[temple]]; thus Forbes, Glotta 36, 258ff,