λήκυθος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(Dor. [[λάκυθος]] [ᾱ] <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).123.130 (Epid., iv B.C.)), ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[lekythos]], [[oil-flask]], δῶκεν δὲ χρυσέῃ ἐν ληκύθῳ ὑγρὸν ἔλαιον <span class="bibl">Od.6.79</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">215</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp. <span class="title">Morb.</span>4.51</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>102.41</span>, etc.; [[casket for unguents]], [[casket for cosmetics]], etc., <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>130</span>; αἱ δὲ λήκυθοι μύρου γέμουσι <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>810</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>207</span>; buried or burnt with the dead, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ec.</span>538</span>, <span class="bibl">996</span>, <span class="bibl">1032</span>, cf. <span class="title">IG</span>14.865, <span class="title">CIG</span> 8346<b class="b2">k</b>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in pl., [[λήκυθοι]] ([[lekythoi]])= [[rhetorical bombast]], <span class="bibl">Cic.<span class="title">Att.</span>1.14.3</span>, Plin.<span class="title">Ep.</span>1.2.4. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[projecting cartilage on the gullet]], [[Adam's apple]] = [[βρόχθος]], <span class="bibl">Clearch.72</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f. (on the gender Schwyzer-Debrunner 34 n. 2)<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">oil-, parfumbottle with handle</b> (Od.), also metaph. rhetorical bombast' (Cic., Plin.; = Lat. [[ampulla]]).<br />Dialectal forms: Epid. <b class="b3">λάκυθος</b> (IVa)<br />Compounds: Few compp., e.g. <b class="b3">αὑτο-λήκυθος</b> <b class="b2">who carries (for poverty) his own oilcasket</b> = <b class="b2">poor man, beggar</b> (Att.).<br />Derivatives: Diminutivum <b class="b3">ληκύθιον</b> (Att.), <b class="b3">ληκυθιάδες ἐνώτια ποιά</b> (H.), <b class="b3">ληκυτίαι</b> pl. = <b class="b3">λήκυθοι</b> (pap.). - Denomin. verb <b class="b3">ληκυθίζω</b> <b class="b2">give a dump, hollow sound (as from a bottle with a small neck), speak deep in the throat</b> (Call., Str., Phryn., Poll.) with <b class="b3">ληκυθ-ιστής</b> <b class="b2">who recited with hollow voice, κοιλόφωνος</b>(S. Fr. 1063, H.), <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> <b class="b2">hollow, dump speaking</b> (Plu.); also as backformation <b class="b3">λήκυθος τὸ μεταξὺ τοῦ λαυκανίου καὶ αὑχένος ἠχῶδες</b> (Clearch.); cf. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 35 n. 12, Bill ClassPhil. 36, 46ff.; extensive Quincey Class Quart. 43, 32ff. with diff. interpretation and discussion.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Cultural word (cf. Schwyzer 61, Hermann Glotta 13, 152); also GN <b class="b3">Λήκυθος</b> (Macedonia). Wrong IE etymologies in Bq and v. Blumenthal Gnomon 10, 526. Connection with OCS [[lakъtь]], Russ. <b class="b2">lákotь</b> [[pot]] is doubtful, s. Vasmer Wb. s. v. (see Machek Studia in hon. Acad. d. Dečev 50). On <b class="b3">λήκυθος</b> in gen. L. J. Elferink, Lekythos. Archäologische, sprachliche und religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen. Amsterdam 1934 (in linguistical aspects contestable). - Fur. 121 connects <b class="b3">λάγυνος</b>, <b class="b3">λάγιον</b> [[beaker]], [[vase]].