πέτευρον: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">hen-roost, acrobat's bar, -framework, high platform, public notice-board</b> (Ar. Fr. 839, inscr. IVa, hell.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-αυρον</b>, [[πέντευρον]] s. bel.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">πετεύρ-ιον</b> n. <b class="b2">small notice-board</b> (Erythrae IVa), <b class="b3">-ίζομαι</b> <b class="b2">to use a π.</b> = [[to act as an acrobat]] (Phld.), with <b class="b3">-ισμός</b>, <b class="b3">-ιστής</b>, <b class="b3">-ιστήρ</b> (Plu., Man.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Technical expression without certain etymology. After Kretschmer KZ 31, 449 from <b class="b3">πετα-</b> (= [[πεδα]]-, s.v.) and [[αὔρα]] [[air]]; similar Baunack Phil. 70, 469 and Schwyzer 198 (Schw.-Debr. 498 n. 2; cf. also Prellwitz): from <b class="b3">*πετα(Ϝ)ορον</b> as byform of <b class="b3">πεδα(Ϝ)ορον</b> = [[μετέωρον]]. On the contrary Persson Beitr. 2, 825 n. 7 with Lobeck tries to find connection with [[πέτομαι]] (prop. *"instrument to fly"[?]); formation then like [[ἄλευρον]] (Benveniste Origines 112). The hesitation [[ευ]] : [[αυ]] is also diff. interpreted; [[ευ]] hypercorrect for [[αυ]] (Schwyzer l.c.); from <b class="b3">-αϜορον</b> resp. <b class="b3">-ηϜορον</b> (Baunack l.c.). -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[petaurum]], <b class="b2">-aurista</b> with <b class="b2">-auristānus</b>, <b class="b2">-aurārius</b> (W.-Hofmann s.v.; there also lit.). -- Pre-Greek Furnée 353; there is also [[πέντευρον]] H. (Furnée 291).