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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[squid]] (Hippon., Epich., Ar., Arist. a. o.).<br />Other forms: Ion. <b class="b3">-ίη</b>.<br />Derivatives: Diminutives <b class="b3">σηπ-ίδιον</b> (Hp., com., Arist.), <b class="b3">-ιδάριον</b> n. (Philyll.); also <b class="b3">-ιάς</b> f. [[id]] (Nic.); <b class="b3">-ίον</b> or <b class="b3">-ειον</b> n. <b class="b2">Os sepiae, bone of the cuttle-fish, pounce</b> (Arist.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Formation and origin dark. In form agreeing to the abstracts in <b class="b3">-ία</b>, <b class="b3">σηπία</b> stands under the fish- and other animal names rather isolated (one would have expected rather <b class="b3">-ίας</b>, ev. <b class="b3">-ια</b>; but note <b class="b3">ταινία</b>). If to <b class="b3">σήπομαι</b> (e.g. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 174 n. 1 [p. 175]), <b class="b3">σηπία</b> in Epich. (61 a. 84) must be either wrongly transmitted or be a Ionism. -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[sēpia]]. -- Prob. a Pre-Greek word (not in Furnée). | |etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[squid]] (Hippon., Epich., Ar., Arist. a. o.).<br />Other forms: Ion. <b class="b3">-ίη</b>.<br />Derivatives: Diminutives <b class="b3">σηπ-ίδιον</b> (Hp., com., Arist.), <b class="b3">-ιδάριον</b> n. (Philyll.); also <b class="b3">-ιάς</b> f. [[id]] (Nic.); <b class="b3">-ίον</b> or <b class="b3">-ειον</b> n. <b class="b2">Os sepiae, bone of the cuttle-fish, pounce</b> (Arist.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Formation and origin dark. In form agreeing to the abstracts in <b class="b3">-ία</b>, <b class="b3">σηπία</b> stands under the fish- and other animal names rather isolated (one would have expected rather <b class="b3">-ίας</b>, ev. <b class="b3">-ια</b>; but note <b class="b3">ταινία</b>). If to <b class="b3">σήπομαι</b> (e.g. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 174 n. 1 [p. 175]), <b class="b3">σηπία</b> in Epich. (61 a. 84) must be either wrongly transmitted or be a Ionism. -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[sēpia]]. -- Prob. a Pre-Greek word (not in Furnée). | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[[σηπία]], ἡ,<br />the cuttle-[[fish]], [[which]] [[when]] pursued darkens the [[water]] by ejecting a [[liquid]], Ar. [deriv. uncertain] | |||
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