ὄλβος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">prosperity, blessed state, wealth, happiness</b> (Il.; on the meaning Radermacher Gnomon 14, 296).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">ὀλβο-δότης</b>, Dor. <b class="b3">-δότας</b> m., <b class="b3">-δότειρα</b> f. [[giver of wealth]] (E. in lyr., hell.) <b class="b3">ἄν-ολβος</b> [[without prosperity]], [[unhappy]] (Orac. ap. Hdt. 1, 85, trag.).<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">ὄλβιος</b> [[blessed]], [[having goods]], [[happy]] (Il.), voc. <b class="b3">ὀλβιό-δ᾽αιμον</b> (Γ 182; Schwyzer 105 w. lit.), superlative <b class="b3">ὄλβιστος</b> (hell.; Seiler Steigerungsformen 104 f.); 2. <b class="b3">ὀλβήεις</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Man.); 3. <b class="b3">ὀλβ-ία</b> f. = <b class="b3">ὄλβος</b> (Phot.); 4. <b class="b3">ὀλβίζω</b> [[to bless]], [[to bless oneself]] (trag.; <b class="b3">ἐπ-</b> ὄλβος Nonn.) with <b class="b3">ὀλβιστήρ</b>, <b class="b3">-ῆρος</b> [[blesser]] (late).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. Various hypotheses by Prellwitz s. v., Bezzenberger BB 5, 171 f., Pisani KZ 61, 180ff., Grošelj Živa Ant. 2, 213, Machek Listy filol. 72, 71 f. - Furnée 155 connects <b class="b3">ὄλπα χόνδρου τις ἕψησις</b>. --- <b class="b3">ἔδεσμά τι</b>. <b class="b3">η ὄλβος</b> H.; if the word is cognate, it must be Pre-Greek, which is at all a good possibility.