βωλήτης
μηδέ μοι ἄκλαυστος θάνατος μόλοι, ἀλλὰ φίλοισι καλλείποιμι θανὼν ἄλγεα καὶ στοναχάς → may death not come to me without tears, but when I die may I leave my friends with sorrow and lamentation
English (LSJ)
A = βωλίτης, Ath.3.113e:—hence βωλητῖνος ἄρτος a loaf of this shape, ibid.
Spanish (DGE)
-ου, ὁ
• Grafía: graf. βωλίτης Gal.6.655, Paul.Aeg.1.77, Gp.12.17.8, lat. boletus Seneca QN 4.13, Plin.HN 22.92, bolites Plin.HN 21.171
bot.
1 hongo, seta Ath.113c, Gal.l.c., Paul.Aeg.l.c., Gp.l.c.
2 raíz de la pulsatila Plin.ll.cc.
• Etimología: Gener. se admite un prést. de lat. bōletus.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: fungus, esp. champignon (Ath.)
Other forms: also βωλίτης (Gp., Gal.), also root of the lychnis.
Derivatives: βωλήτιον saucepan, βωλητάρια πινάκια (Pap.), βωλητῖνος ἄρτος (Ath.), after the form.
Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably] Lat.
Etymology: From Lat. bōlētus (Sen.), which was called after the Spanish town Boletum (Niedermann IFAnz. 29, 31f.); but s. W.-Hofmann s. v. Doubtful Machek Lingua posnaniensis 2, 48 : βωλήτης from the same source as Slav. bъdla champignon. (Not better Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. 1, 93.) - βωλίτης after the derivatives in -ίτης; its meaning root through influence of βῶλος. It was introduced in Latin (Plin.); Redard -της 70.
