ἵμερος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῑ], ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[longing]], [[yearning after]], c. gen. rei, [[σῖτος|σίτου]] . . περὶ φρένας ἵμερος αἱρεῖ <span class="bibl">Il.11.89</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">γόου ἵμερον ὦρσε</b> [[raise]]d [in them] a [[yearning]] after [[tear]]s, i.e. a [[desire]] of the [[soul]] to [[disburden]] itself in [[grief]], <span class="bibl">23.14</span>; ὑφ' ἵμερος ὦρτο γόοιο <span class="bibl">Od.16.215</span>, etc.: with [[genitive]] obj. added, <b class="b3">πατρὸς ὑφ' ἵμερον ὦρσε γόοιο</b> [[for]] his [[father]], <span class="bibl">4.113</span>; [[ἵμερον ἔχειν]] = [[ἱμείρεσθαι]], c. inf., <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.106</span>,<span class="bibl">7.43</span>; ἵμερος ἔχει με . . ἰδεῖν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1725</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>24.11</span>; ἵ. ἐπείρεσθαί μοι ἐπῆλθέ <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.30</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">9.3</span>; τῶν (sc. [[δένδρον|δενδρέων]]) [[γλυκύς|γλυκὺς]] ἵμερος ἔσχεν . . φυτεῦσαι <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>3.33</span>: in plural, <b class="b3">πολλοὶ γὰρ εἰς ἓν ξυμπίτνουσιν ἵ</b>. various [[impulse]]s or [[emotion]]s, <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Ch.</span>299</span>, cf. Phld.<span class="title">Ir.</span>p.37 W., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Piet.</span>20</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> abs., [[desire]], [[love]], ὥς σεο νῦν ἔραμαι καί με γλυκὺς ἵ. αἱρεῖ <span class="bibl">Il.3.446</span>; <b class="b3">δὸς νῦν μοι φιλότητα καὶ ἵ</b>. <span class="bibl">14.198</span>; δαμέντα φρένας ἱμέρῳ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.41</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>25.16</span>; ἱμέρῳ [[πεπληγμένος]] <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>544</span>; ἱμέρου νικώμενος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>1005</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pr.</span>649</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>476</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>59</span>; <b class="b3">βλεφάρων ἵμερος</b> <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>796</span>(lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> personified, <b class="b3">Χάριτές τε καὶ Ἵ</b>. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>64</span>; Ἔρως . . χαρίτων, ἱμέρου, πόθου πατήρ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>197d</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DDeor.</span>20.15</span>, <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>1.68</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> as adjective, only in neut. as adverb, ἵμερον αὐλήσαντι <span class="title">AP</span>9.266 (Antip.); <b class="b3">ἵμερα μελίζεσθαι, ἵμερα δακρῦσαι</b>, ib.7.30 (Antip. Sid.), 364 (Marc. Arg.).— Poet., exc. in Pl. and Ion. and later Prose, as Hdt. ll. cc., Hp.Aër. 22, Phld. ll. cc., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Acad.Ind.</span>p.56M.</span> (sometimes derived fr. <b class="b2">is-mero-</b>, cf. Skt. iṣṭás '[[desired]]', iṣmás '[[god]] of [[love]]', but Aeol. texts have [[ἴμερος]], [[ἰμέρρω]], never <b class="b3">ἰμμ-</b>; cf. <b class="b3">ἡμερτόν· ἐπέραστον</b>, Hsch. ([[si vera lectio|s.v.l.]]).)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[longing]], [[yearning]], [[love]] (Il., cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 313 w. n. 90).<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">ἐφ-ίμερος</b> [[filled with yearning]], [[love]] (Hes., Archil., A.), <b class="b3">ἱμερό-γυιος</b> [[with lovely limbs]] (B.).<br />Derivatives: [[ἱμερόεις]] [[longing]], [[lovely]] (Il.), [[ἱμερώδης]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Callistr.); [[ἱμείρω]], <b class="b3">-ομαι</b>, also <b class="b3">ἐφ-</b>, [[yearn]], [[desire]] (Il.) with [[ἱμερτός]] [[longs for]], [[lovely]] (since Β 751).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Uncertain. The connection with Skt. <b class="b2">iṣmá-</b> <b class="b2">spring, god(of love)</b> (Lex.), [[iccháti]] (< <b class="b2">*is-sḱé-ti</b>) [[wish]] (Curtius, Fick, Solmsen KZ 29, 78f., Sommer Lautstud. 27f.), is semantically perhaps not impossible (meaning <b class="b2">god(of love)</b> however invented?, s. Mayrhofer KEWA s. v.), leaves the Greek wordformation unexplained. So perh. rather with Bally MSL 12, 321 from <b class="b2">*si-smero-s</b> resp. <b class="b2">*si-smer-i̯ō</b> with intensifying reduplikation as in Av. <b class="b2">hi-šmarǝnt-</b> <b class="b2">well-conducted</b> to Skt. [[smárati]] (< <b class="b2">*sméreti</b>) [[remember]] (hardly to [[μέριμνα]], [[μέρμερος]], [[μάρτυς]]). So [[ἵμερος]], [[ἱμείρω]] prop. [[lively remembering]] etc. (Cf. Skt. <b class="b2">smará-</b> m. [[love]]); [[ἵμερος]] could be postverbal to [[ἱμείρω]] (Risch 248). Cf. also Schwyzer 282 a. 423.