ἀλίβας: Difference between revisions

|Definition=αντος, ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[dead body]], [[corpse]], ἔνεροι καὶ ἀλίβαντες <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span> 387c</span>, cf. <span class="title">IPE</span>12.519 (Cherson.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[dead river]], i.e. <span class="title">Styx</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 790</span> (cf. <span class="bibl">994</span>). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[dead wine]], i.e. [[vinegar]], <span class="bibl">Hippon.102</span>; <b class="b3">ἔβηξαν οἷον</b> (v.l. [[οἶνον]]) <b class="b3"> ἀλίβαντα</b> (or <b class="b3">ἁλίβ-</b>, i.e. <b class="b3">οἱ ἀλίβ-</b>) πίνοντες <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 88</span>; cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>63.52</span>. (Ancient Gramm. derived the word fr. [[ἀ-]] priv., [[λιβάς]] and gave it the meaning [[dry]], [[withered]], cf. Did. ap. Sch.<span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span> 186</span>, <span class="bibl">Corn.<span class="title">ND</span>35</span>, Plu.2.736a; the quantity of the first a is dub.)</span>

|etymtx=-αντος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[corpse]], [[a dead]] (Pl. R. 387 c, H.), also of the Styx (S. Fr. 790) and metaphorically of wine-vinegar (Hippon.). <b class="b3">ἀλίβας· νεκρός ἦ βροῦχος ἦ ποταμός ἦ ὄξος</b> H.; other glosses s. Peiffer ad Call. fr. 216 (v.l. <b class="b3">ἁ-</b>; the vowel is perhaps long).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: The antique explanation as [[sapless]] with [[α]] privativum and [[λιβάς]] is popular etymology (defended by Lawson ClassRev. 40, 52ff., 116ff.; cf. Wilamowitz Herm. 54, 64. Wrong Immisch Arch. f. Religionswiss. 14, 449f. Furher Petersson Gr. u. lat. Wortstudien (1922) 3f. Kretschmer Glotta 28, 269 connected Etr. [[lupu]] [[he died]], Lat. [[Libitina]]; possible, but uncertain. The deviant shape of the word and forms like [[ὀκρίβας]], [[κιλλίβας]], [[λυκάβας]], [[Κορύβαντες]] (not to [[βαίνω]] of course) make it clear that this is a substr. word.