ἕλκος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[wound]], [[ulcer]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">ἑλκο-ποιός</b> <b class="b2">making wounds</b> (A.) with <b class="b3">ἑλκοποιέω</b> (Aeschin.).<br />Derivatives: Dimin. <b class="b3">ἑλκύδριον</b> (Hp., Ar.; on the suffix Chantr. Form. 72f.); <b class="b3">ἑλκώδης</b> [[ulcerated]] (Hp., E.), <b class="b3">ἑλκήεις</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Man.); denomin. verbs: <b class="b3">ἑλκόομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b> [[fester]], act. [[wound]] (Hp., E.; also with prefix: <b class="b3">ἀν-</b>, <b class="b3">ἀφ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐξ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐφ-</b>, <b class="b3">καθ-</b>, <b class="b3">προ-</b>); from it (<b class="b3">ἀφ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐξ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐφ-)ἕλκωσις</b> [[festering]] (Hp., Th.) with <b class="b3">ἑλκωτικός</b>, <b class="b3">ἕλκωμα</b> [[wound]], [[ulcer]] (Hp., Thphr.) with <b class="b3">ἑλκωματικός</b>; from <b class="b3">ἐφελκόομαι</b> also <b class="b3">ἐφελκίς</b> <b class="b2">scab of a wound</b> (medic.); <b class="b3">ἑλκαίνω</b> [[fester]] (A. Ch. 843) with postverbal <b class="b3">ἕλκανα τραύματα</b> H. (not correct Benveniste Origines 16); also <b class="b3">ἑλκανῶσα ἡλκωμένη η ἡλκοποιημένη ὑπὸ πυρός</b> H. (Schwyzer 700).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [310] <b class="b2">*h₁elḱ-os</b> [[ulcer]]<br />Etymology: Old noun, identical with Lat. [[ulcus]] (< <b class="b2">*elkos</b>) [[ulcer]], Skt. <b class="b2">árśas-</b> n. [[haemorrhoids]]. The spir. asper from <b class="b3">ἕλκω</b>?