σκολόπαξ
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
English (LSJ)
ᾰκος, ὁ, prob.
A = ἀσκαλώπας, Arist.HA614a33, prob. cj. for σπάλακα in Thphr.Sign.49. [scolōpax in Nemesian.Aucup.21.]
German (Pape)
[Seite 902] ακος, ὁ, eine große Schnepfe, wahrscheinlich die Waldschnepfe, Arist. H. A. 9, 8, auch σκολῶπαξ geschrieben u. ἀσκάλωψ, ἀσκαλώπας.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σκολόπᾰξ: -ᾰκος, ὁ, ἴσως ἡ ξυλόκοττα, εἶδος μπεκάτσας, Scolopax rusticola, Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 8. 8, 12· scolõpax παρὰ τῷ Nemesean. Aucup. 21· καὶ ὁ Ἀριστ. δὲ ἔχει ἀσκαλώπας, ὃ ἴδε, Ἡσύχ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ακος (ὁ) :
sorte de bécasse, oiseau.
Étymologie: σκόλοψ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
σκολόπαξ: ᾰκος ὁ вальдшнеп или бекас Arst.
Frisk Etymological English
-ακος
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: name of a bird, which is usually identified wit ἀσκαλώπας (-πᾶς?) m. (Arist.) and explained as woodcock, Scolopax rusticola; cf. Thompson Birds s. vv.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]
Etymology: To σκόλοψ pole (referring to the long beak of the snipe), either as cognate with it or folk-etymolog. adapted to it. With the anlaut and auslaut cf. e.g. ἀσπάλαξ beside σπάλαξ (Chantraine Form. 378); ἀσκαλώπας (-πᾶς?) like κελαινώπας (S. in lyr.), βύας, ἀτταγᾶς; the stemvowel after σκάλλω. -- Furnée 344 identifies the word with ἀσκαλωπ- and concludes that it was Pre-Greek. Anyhow the word looks Pre-Greek.
Frisk Etymology German
σκολόπαξ: -ακος
{skolópaks}
Grammar: m. (Arist.)
Meaning: N. eines Vogels, der gewöhnlich mit ἀσκαλώπας (-πᾶς?) m. (Arist.) identifiziert und als Waldschnepfe, Scolopax rusticola erklärt wird; vgl. Thompson Birds s. vv.
Etymology : Zu σκόλοψ Pfahl (mit Bez. auf den langen Schnabel der Schnepfe), entweder als damit verwandt oder volksetymologisch daran angeglichen. Zum Anlaut und Auslaut vgl. z.B. ἀσπάλαξ neben σπάλαξ (Chantraine Form. 378); ἀσκαλώπας (-πᾶς?) wie κελαινώπας (S. in lyr.), βύας, ἀτταγᾶς; der Stammvokal nach σκάλλω.
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