σάκος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ᾰ], εος, τό</b>, Ion. gen. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> σάκευς <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>334</span> (Cretan word acc. to <span class="title">AB</span>1096):—[[shield]], <span class="bibl">Il.7.222</span>, <span class="bibl">18.478</span>, <span class="bibl">20.268</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.52</span>, etc.: it was concave, and hence sts. used as a vessel to hold liquid, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span> 540</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., [[shield]], [[defence]], <b class="b3">βωμός, ἄρρηκτον σ</b>. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>190</span>. (Prob. cogn. with Skt. <b class="b2">tvác-</b> 'skin, hide'.)</span><span class=head>σάκος</span><span class="bld">σάκος</span> [ᾰ], ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> v. [[σάκκος]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">B</span> σᾱκός, ὁ, v. [[σηκός]].</span>

|elnltext=σάκος -εος, contr. -ους, τό schild, m. n. het manshoge schild; overdr. van een altaar:. ἄρρηκτον σάκος een onbreekbaar schild Aeschl. Suppl. 190.<br />σάκος -ου, ὁ zie σάκκος.

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">shield (made of leather)</b>, prop. [[longshield]], [[tower shield]] (cf. [[ἀσπίς]] w. lit.; Hom., also A. a.o.).<br />Compounds: Some compp; e.g. <b class="b3">σακέσ-παλος</b> [[shield-swaying]] (Ε 126, Call., Nonn.). σάκος <b class="b3">-φόρος</b> [[shield-bearing]] (B., S., E.), <b class="b3">φερε-σσακής</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hes. Sc., Nonn.); cf. Trümpy Fachausdrücke 20ff., Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 94 f. w. many details.<br />Derivatives: No derivv.<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Semit.<br />Etymology: Old word, which orig. indicated the skin, the hide and seemed also atteseted in Oind.: <b class="b2">tvác-</b> f. [[skin]], [[hide]], as <b class="b2">s-</b>stem (= [[σάκος]]) a.o. in <b class="b2">híraṇya-tvacas-</b> [[with golden skin]]. Here prob. also, but with <b class="b2">e-</b>vowel, which does not agree with [[σάκος]], Hitt. [[tuekkaš]] [[body]]. Lit. in Mayrhofer s. <b class="b2">tvák</b>; older lit. in Bq and WP. 1, 747 (Pok. 1099). Quite uncertain OP. [[taka-barā]], adjunct of the [[Yaunā]] (Ionians); s. Mayrhofer Orientalia 33, 84ff. (after Pisani Glotta 42, 183 ff. loan from Gr. <b class="b3">*σακοφόρος</b>[?]). -- The word is prob. a loan from Semit., Acc. [[saqqu]], Hebr. <b class="b2">śaq</b>; Masson, Emprunts sémit. 24.