κλέος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[fame]], [[renown]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: Phoc. [[κλέϜος]]<br />Compounds: Compp., esp. in PN, e. g. <b class="b3">Κλεο-μένης</b> (shortname <b class="b3">Κλέομ(μ)ις</b>) with tansit in the <b class="b2">o-</b>stems, beside <b class="b3">Κλει-σθένης</b> (from <b class="b3">*ΚλεϜεσ-</b> or <b class="b3">*ΚλεϜι-σθένης</b>), <b class="b3">Τιμο-κλέϜης</b> (Cypr.) etc.; s. Fick-Bechtel Personennamen 162ff., Bechtel Hist. Personennamen 238ff.; on Thess. etc. <b class="b3">-κλέας</b> for <b class="b3">-κλέης</b> Kretschmer Glotta 26, 37.<br />Derivatives: Adjective [[κλεινός]], Aeol. [[κλέεννος]] (< <b class="b3">*κλεϜεσ-νός</b>) [[famous]] (Sol., Pi.) with [[Κλεινίας]] a. o. - Enlargement after the nouns in -(<b class="b3">η)δών</b> (cf. Schwyzer 529f., Chantraine Formation 361): [[κλεηδών]], <b class="b3">-όνος</b> f. (Od.), [[κληηδών]] (δ 312; metr. lengthening), [[κληδών]] (Hdt., trag.; contraction resp. adaptation to [[κλῄζω]], [[κικλήσκω]]; s. below) <b class="b2">fame, (divine) pronouncement</b>; from it [[κληδόνιος]] (sch., Eust.), [[κληδονίζομαι]], <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> (LXX) with <b class="b3">-ισμα</b>, <b class="b3">-ισμός</b>. - Denomin. verb: 1. [[κλείω]] (Il.), [[κλέω]] (B., trag. in lyr.) [[celebrate]], [[praise]], [[proclaim]], hell. also [[call]] (after [[κλῄζω]], s. below), [[κλέομαι]] [[enjoy fame]], [[be celebrated]] (Ω 202), hell. also [[be called]]; basis <b class="b3">*κλεϜεσ-ι̯ω</b> > <b class="b3">*κλε(Ϝ)έω</b>, from where [[κλείω]], [[κλέω]]; s. Wackernagel BphW 1891 Sp. 9; see Frisk GHÅ 56 : 3 (1950) 3ff., where the possibility is discussed that [[κλέω]] (from where [[κλείω]] with metr. lengthening) is a backformation of [[κλέος]] after [[ψεύδω]] : [[ψεῦδος]] (thus Risch par. 31 a). Diff. e. g. Schulze Q. 281: [[κλείω]] denomin. from <b class="b3">*κλεϜεσ-ι̯ω</b>, but [[κλέω]], [[κλέομαι]] old primary formation; diff. again Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 346 w. n. 3: [[κλέω]] primary, from where with metrical lengthening [[κλείω]]; further s. Frisk l. c. - From [[κλείω]], [[κλέω]] as agent noun [[Κλειώ]], [[Κλεώ]], <b class="b3">-οῦς</b> f. "the one who gives fame", name of one of the Muses (Hdt., Pi.). - 2. [[κλεΐζω]] (Pi.; [[εὑκλεΐζω]] from [[εὑκλεής]] also Sapph., Tyrt.), [[κληΐζω]] (Hp., hell.), [[κλῄζω]] (Ar.), aor. [[κλεΐξαι]] resp. [[κληΐσαι]], <b class="b3">κλῃ̃σαι</b>, [[κλεῖσαι]], fut. [[κλεΐξω]], [[κληΐσω]], [[κλῄσω]] etc., [[celebrate]], [[praise]], [[proclaim]], also [[call]] (after [[κικλήσκω]], [[καλέω]]; from there also the notation <b class="b3">κλη-</b>); basis <b class="b3">*κλεϜεσ-ίζω</b>; diff. e. g. Schulze Q. 282ff., s. Bq s. [[κλείω]] and Schwyzer 735 n. 7; cf. also Fraenkel Glotta 4, 36ff.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [606] <b class="b2">*ḱleuos</b> [[fame]]<br />Etymology: Old verbal noun of a word for [[hear]], found in several languages: Skt. <b class="b2">śrávas-</b> n. [[fame]] (<b class="b3">κλέος ἄφθιτον</b>: <b class="b2">ákṣiti śrávaḥ</b>), Av. <b class="b2">sravah-</b> n. [[word]], OCS [[slovo]] n. [[word]], also OIr. [[clū]] and Toch. A [[klyw]], B [[kälywe]] [[fame]], and also Illyr. PN [[Ves-cleves]] (= Skt. <b class="b2">vásu-śravas-</b> [[having good fame]]; cf. <b class="b3">Εὑ-κλῆς</b>). The denomin. <b class="b3">κλε(ί)ω</b> < <b class="b3">*κλεϜεσ-ι̯ω</b> also agrees to Skt. <b class="b2">śravasyáti</b> [[praise]], which therefore can be pre-Greek. Further s. [[κλύω]]. - On [[κλέος]] s. Steinkopf and Greindl s. [[εὔχομαι]], and Greindl RhM 89, 217ff.