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|etymtx=-εος<br />Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">big sea-animal, sea-monster</b> (Il.), [[whale]] (Arist.); also name of a constellation (Arat.; Scherer Gestirnnamen 187).<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">κητό-δορπος</b> (<b class="b3">συμφορά</b>) <b class="b2">giving the κητεα their evening-meal</b> (Lyc.); <b class="b3">μεγα-κήτης</b> <b class="b2">with big κήτεα</b> (Hom.), adjunct of <b class="b3">πόντος</b>, also of <b class="b3">δελφίς</b> = <b class="b2">(being) a big κῆτος</b>, from there of <b class="b3">ναῦς</b> (cf. Sommer Nominalkomp. 184f.), <b class="b3">βαθυ-κήτης</b> (<b class="b3">πόντος</b>) <b class="b2">having κήτεα in the deep</b> (Thgn. 175), <b class="b3">πολυ-κήτης</b> <b class="b2">with many κήτεα</b> (Theoc. 17, 98).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κήτειος</b> <b class="b2">belonging to the κῆτος</b> (Mosch., Nonn.), <b class="b3">κητώδης</b> <b class="b2">belonging to the whale (species)</b> (Arist.); <b class="b3">κητεία</b> f. <b class="b2">catching of κήτεα (tunnies)</b> (Str., Ath., Ael.; after <b class="b3">ἁλιεία</b>); <b class="b3">κήτημα</b> <b class="b2">salted tunnies</b> (Diph. Siph. ap. Ath. 3, 121b; uncertain), <b class="b3">κητήνη πλοῖον μέγα ὡς κῆτος</b> H. (after <b class="b3">ἀπήνη</b>?; cf. also Chantraine Étrennes Benveniste 9); <b class="b3">κητόομαι</b> <b class="b2">become a κῆτος</b> (Ael.). See [[κητώεσσαν]].<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. Wrong IE. etymologies noted in Bq and WP. 1, 384 (s. also Bechtel Lex. s. v.). Prob. a Pre-Greek word.

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