πρίστις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εως, ἡ, prob. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[saw-fish]], [[Pristis antiquorum]], <span class="bibl">Epich.59</span> (v. infr.), <span class="title">AP</span>7.506.10 (Leon.), <span class="bibl">Polycharm.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">H.</span>1.370</span>, <span class="bibl">Ael. <span class="title">NA</span>9.49</span>; coupled with [[βοῦς]] (v. βοῦς ''III'') but distd. from [[δελφίς]], [[φάλαινα]] and other animals which have a blow-hole instead of gills in <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>566b3</span>. ([[πρῆστις]] is read in Epich.l.c., Opp.l.c. (v.l. [[πρίστις]]), Ael. l.c., Suid., but [[πρίστις]] in Arist., Polycharm., <span class="title">AP</span> ll.cc. and [[pristis]] is the Lat. form, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>9.4</span>,<span class="bibl">41</span>; the spelling [[πρῆστις]] was perh. due to the idea that it was a 'spouter'; there was further a supposed connection between [[πρίω]] and <b class="b3">πρήθω; πρίεται· φυσοῦται</b>, Hsch., cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>687.39</span>; v. [[πρίω]] <span class="bibl">11.2</span> fin.) </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[ship of war]], prob. from its shape, <span class="bibl">Plb.18.1.1</span>, <span class="bibl">16.2.9</span>(pl.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> a kind of [[cup]], also from the shape, π., τραγέλαφος κτλ. <span class="bibl">Diph.80</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> ornamental part of a surgical machine, <span class="bibl">Orib.49.4.42</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> a stone-mason's implement, <span class="title">IG</span>12.313.130; gen.pl. <b class="b3">πριστίω[ν</b>] dub. sens. in ib.42(1).118.15 (Epid., iii B.C.).</span>