ῥίζα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ης, ἡ: Ion. nom.<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[ῥίζη]] Hp. ap. Erot., acc. ῥίζην Marc.Sid.89 (before a vowel), but ῥίζαν Il.11.846 (whence Ion. nom. [[ῥίζα]] may be inferred):—[[root]], Od.10.304, 23.196, etc.; used as a medicine, Il.11.846; ῥίζα [[ἐλατήριος]], of a [[purgative]] [[medicine]], Hp.''Epid.''5.34: mostly in plural, [[roots]], Il.12.134, Od.12.435, etc.; δένδρεα μακρὰ αὐτῇσιν ῥίζησι Il.9.542: hence<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., [[roots of the eye]], Od.9.390 (but <b class="b3">ῥίζας ἐν ὄσσοις αἱματῶπας</b> in E.''HF''933 prob. bloodshot [[streak]]s); the [[root]]s or [[foundation]]s of the [[earth]], Hes.''Op.''19; χθόνα.. αὐταῖς ῥ. πνεῦμα κραδαίνοι A.''Pr.''1047 (anap.); <b class="b3">ἰπούμενος ῥίζαισιν Αἰτναίαις ὕπο</b> ib.367; of feathers, hair, etc., Pl.''Phdr.''251b, Arist.''HA''518b14; of the [[teeth]], Id.''GA''789a13; γαστρὸς ῥ. [[ὀμφαλός]] Id.''HA''493a18, etc.<br><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">τὸν πόλεμον ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἀνῄρηκε</b> [[extirpate]]d the [[war]] [[entirely]], '[[root and branch]]', Plu.''Pomp.''21, cf. Heraclid. Pont. ap. Ath.12.523f; ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἀπώλεσεν [[LXX]] ''Jb.''31.12; cf. [[ῥιζόθεν]], [[πρόρριζος]].<br><span class="bld">II</span> that from which anything [[spring]]s as from a [[root]], <b class="b3">ῥίζαν ἀπείρου τρίταν</b> a third continental [[foundation]], of [[Libya]], Pi.''P.''9.8; <b class="b3">ἀστέων ῥ.</b>, of [[Cyrene]], as the [[root]] or [[original]] of the [[Cyrenaic]] [[Pentapolis]], ib.4.15; [[root]] or [[stock]] from which a [[family]] springs, ῥίζα σπέρματος Id.''O.''2.46, cf. ''I.''8(7).61, A.''Ag.''966, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''1178, etc.; so, [[race]], [[family]], A.''Th.''755 (lyr.), E.''IT''610, ''OGI''383.31 (Nemrud Dagh, i B.C.), etc.; συκοφάντου.. σπέρμα καὶ ῥ. D.25.48; [[sect]], [[party]], Jul. ''Gal.''106e; also [[ῥίζα]] κακῶν E.''Fr.''912.11 (anap.); ἀρχὴ καὶ ῥίζα παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ Epicur.''Fr.''409, cf. ''1 Ep.Ti.''6.10; πηγὴ καὶ ῥίζα καλοκἀγαθίας Plu. 2.4c; ἀρχαὶ καὶ ῥ. γῆς καὶ θαλάττης [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''353b1, etc.; cf. [[ῥίζωμα]] ''ΙΙ''.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[base]], [[foundation]], <b class="b3">ῥίζα πάντων καὶ βάσις ἁ γᾶ ἐρήρεισται</b> Ti. Locr.97e, cf. Pl.''Ti.''81c; [[base]] of a [[vertical]] [[pillar]], Procl.''Hyp.''3.23; τῶν λόφων Onos.10.6.<br><span class="bld">3</span> Math., [[root]] or [[base]] of a series, [[Anatolius]] ap.''Theol.Ar.''9. (Aeol. [[βρίζα]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]): cf. Goth. waúrts, Lat. [[radix]].)  

|mdlsjtxt=[[ῥίζα]], ης, ἡ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[root]], Od., [[attic]]: in plural the roots, Hom.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> metaph. the roots of the eye, Od.; the roots or foundations of the [[earth]], Hes., Aesch., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> ἐκ ῥιζῶν, Lat. [[radicitus]], Plut.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[anything]] that grows like a [[root]] from one [[stem]], [[whence]] [[Pindar]] calls [[Libya]] the τρίτη [[ῥίζα]] χθονός, considering the [[earth]] as divided [[into]] [[three]] continents.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> metaph. the [[root]] or [[stock]] from [[which]] a [[family]] springs, Lat. [[stirps]], Pind., Aesch., etc.; and so a [[race]], [[family]], Aesch., Eur., etc.