πυραμίς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ίδος, ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[pyramid]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.8</span>, <span class="bibl">124</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.1.63</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.17.1.33</span>, <span class="title">OGI</span>666.13 (Egypt, i A.D.), etc.; as a sepulchral monument, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLips.</span> 30.14</span> (iii A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[pyramid]], as a geometrical figure, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span> 56b</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cael.</span>304a12</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[pyramidal number]], Speus. ap. <span class="title">Theol.Ar.</span>62. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> name of a farm-building, <span class="title">IG</span>22.2776.16; of a fountain, <span class="title">Arch.Anz.</span>26.233 (Panticapaeum). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> a sort of [[cake]], <span class="bibl">Ephipp.13.5</span> (anap.); different from <b class="b3">πυραμοῦς</b>, acc. to Iatrocl. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath. 14.647c</span> codd. (but dub., cf. <b class="b3">πυραμοῦντα· τὴν πυραμίδα</b>, Hsch.); <b class="b3">ἡ ἐκ πυρῶν καὶ μέλιτος, ὥσπερ σησαμὶς ἡ ἐκ σησάμων καὶ μέλιτος</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>697.27</span>. (Expld. by Gramm., etc., fr. <b class="b3">πῦρ</b> because pointed, Amm.Marc.22.15.29, cf. Pl.l.c.; from <b class="b3">πυρός</b>, St.Byz.: it is suggested that the pyramids were named from resembling a πυραμίς <span class="bibl">11</span> in shape; but the shape of a π. <span class="bibl">11</span> is unknown: the derivation from Egypt. <b class="b2">pr-m-wś</b> 'the height of a pyramid' is doubtful.)</span>

|etymtx=-ίδος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: 1. [[pyramid]] (Hdt. a.o.). 2. <b class="b2">kind of cake of roasted wheat-grains preserved in honey</b> (Ephipp.), mostly <b class="b3">πυραμοῦς</b>, <b class="b3">-οῦντος</b> m. (Ar., Ephipp., Call. a.o.), also <b class="b3">πυραμοί</b> pl. m. (Artem.); after H. <b class="b3">πύραμος</b> also = <b class="b3">χόρτος</b>.<br />Derivatives: Besides <b class="b3">πυράμη</b> f. [[sickle]] (sch.), backformation from <b class="b3">πυραμητός</b> m. [[wheat-harvest]] (Arist. a.o.). <b class="b3">πυραμιδο-ειδής</b> [[pyramidal]] (Epicur.), usu. haplolog. <b class="b3">πυραμο-ειδής</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Thphr. a.o.), <b class="b3">-ιδικός</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Iamb.).<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]<br />Etymology: In the sense of [[cake]] from <b class="b3">πυρός</b> [[wheat]] after <b class="b3">σησαμ-ίς</b>, <b class="b3">-οῦς</b>. After Diels KZ 47, 193 ff. (w. lit. and uncorrect formal analysis) the Egypt. pyramids were named after the (though unknown) form of the cake; on this Kretschmer Glotta 10, 243.