στάμνος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, also ἡ <span class="bibl">Hermipp.82.7</span>, Eratosth. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.11.499e</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Hebr.</span>9.4</span>:— <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">earthen jar</b> or <b class="b2">bottle for racking off wine</b> (cf. [[κατασταμνίζω]]), <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span> 545</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>531</span>, Hermipp. l.c., <span class="bibl">D.35.32</span>: generally, [[jar]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Epid.</span>7.89</span>; σ. μέλιτος <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">3 Ki.</span>12.24h</span>; <b class="b3">σ. χρυσῆ ἔχουσα τὸ μάννα</b> <span class="title">Ep.Hebr.</span> l.c.; used to keep money in, <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).287 <span class="title">A</span> 76 (Delos, iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span> 46.35</span> (ii B.C.); as a ballot-box, <span class="title">Jahresh.</span>23 <span class="title">Beibl.</span>75 (Pygela, iv/iii B.C.); as a measure, τοῦ ἐλαίου <span class="title">SIG</span>900.27 (Panamara, iv A.D.): <b class="b3">ἀμφορέα· τὸν δίωτον στάμνον, Ἀττικῶς, στάμνον, Ἑλληνικῶς</b>, <span class="bibl">Moer. p.44</span> P.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">big jar, esp. wine-jar</b> (IA.).<br />Derivatives: Several diminutives: <b class="b3">σταμν-ίον</b>, <b class="b3">-άριον</b> n., <b class="b3">-ίσκος</b> m. (com., hell. a. late). Surname <b class="b3">Σταμνίας</b> m. (Ar.). Denom, verb <b class="b3">σταμν-ίζω</b>, only with <b class="b3">κατα-</b> and <b class="b3">συν-</b>, <b class="b2">to pour into a jar, to transfuse</b> (Thphr., Nic. a. o.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation like <b class="b3">ἐρυμνός</b> (: <b class="b3">ἔρυμα</b>), <b class="b3">λίμνη</b> (: <b class="b3">λιμήν</b>) a. o. (Schwyzer 524 and Chantraine Form. 215 with unfounded doubt (?) regarding the IE etym. ). So prob. from a noun <b class="b3">*στᾶμα</b>, <b class="b3">*σταμήν</b> v. t. [[stand]], [[standing place]]; prop. <b class="b2">"destined to stand, fit for"</b> as opposed to a jug to be carried. Thus <b class="b3">στάτος</b> m. (substantivized from <b class="b3">στατός</b>) <b class="b2">big jug</b> (hell. inscr., H.), OHG [[stanta]] <b class="b2">jug to be put somewhere</b>, Lith. <b class="b2">statìnė</b> [[barrel]], [[cask]]. A zero grade <b class="b3">μ-</b>derivation is also supposed in [[σταμῖνες]] (s. v.); comparable formations in other languages are Toch. B [[stām]], A <b class="b2">ṣtām</b> [[tree]] (beside which with the original meaning <b class="b2">stäm-</b> [[stand]] in inf. <b class="b2">stam-atsi</b> etc.), OHG [[stam]], gen. [[stammes]] [[stem]], which may stand for PGm. <b class="b2">*stamna-</b> (IE <b class="b2">*sth₂-mn-o-</b>) (and so would be formally identical with <b class="b3">στάμνος</b>), but which may also be explained diff. (WP. 2, 606 f., Pok. 1008). -- Cf. [[στήμων]]. -- Alb. LW [loanword] <b class="b2">shtâmbë</b>, <b class="b2">shtëmbë</b> f. [[bottle]] (Mann Lang. 17, 23). - Furnée 227, 245 compares <b class="b3">στάφος</b>: possible but uncertain. A Pre-Greek word seems more probable to me: a standing thing is not typically a vase.