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|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[be moist]] (Thphr.; on a disease of a fir-tree), also [[fall off]] of hair, also with <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b> (Hp., Ar., Arist., LXX).<br />Other forms: aor. [[μαδῆσαι]]<br />Derivatives: [[μάδησις]] [[falling off of hair]] (Hp.), [[μαδαῖος]] [[being moist]] (Poet. de herb.; after [[ἰκμαῖος]]?). - Factitive [[μαδίζω]], also with <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, [[remove the hair]], [[pluck or singe bare]] (medic.) with [[μαδιστήριον]] [[instrument]], [[place where depilation is carried on]] = <b class="b3">ευ῝στρα</b> (Halicarn. Ia, sch.), <b class="b3">ὁλο-μάδιστος</b> [[quite bald]] (Cyran.), also [[μάδισος]] (s. below); as iterative [[μαδάσκομαι]] [[become moist]] (medic. VIIp). - Expressive enlargement <b class="b3">μα[γ]δάλλει τίλλει</b>, [[ἐσθίει]]; <b class="b3">μα[γ]δάλλοντες τίλλοντες</b>, [[ἐσθίοντες]] H., cf. <b class="b3">κναδάλλεται κνήθεται</b> H. and Debrunner IF 21, 91. - Besides [[μαδαρός]] [[being moist]] (Hp., Arist.), [[bald]] (Luc.) with [[μαδαρότης]] <b class="b2">baldness, falling off of the hair, the eyelashes</b> (Hp., Gal.), [[μαδαρόω]] [[remove the hairs]] (LXX Ne. 13, 25, [[varia lectio|v.l.]], Crete IIa), [[μαδάρωσις]] = <b class="b3">-ότης</b> (Gal., Vett. Val.; prob. direct from [[μαδαρός]], cf. Chantraine Form. 279); <b class="b3">μαδαρ-ιάω</b> [[suffer loss of hair]] (Cleopatra ap. Gal. 12, 405). Beside [[μαδαρός]] there is <b class="b3">μαδι-γένειος</b> [[with bald chin]] (Arist.); cf. [[χαλαρός]]: <b class="b3">χαλί-φρων</b>.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [694] <b class="b2">*meh₂d-</b>? [[be moist]], [[drip]]<br />Etymology: On the development [[flow away]] > [[fall out]] cf. [[ἐκρέω]] [[flow away]], [[fall out]] and Lat. [[dēfluō]] [[flow down]], also [[fall out]], [[go out]] of hairs. - With [[μαδάω]] : [[μαδαρός]] cf. [[χαλάω]] : [[χαλαρός]] and the synonymous pair [[πλαδάω]] : [[πλαδαρός]]; but aor. [[μαδῆσαι]] innovation against [[χαλάσαι]] (as [[λαγαρός]] : [[λαγάσαι]] a. o.); the morphological analysis, however, remains uncertain, cf. Schwyzer 682 f. - Only formally different are: Lat. [[madeō]] [[be moist]], [[drip]], [[be drunk]] (after the intransitives in <b class="b2">-ēre</b>), OIr. [[maidim]] <b class="b2">break (out)</b> (intr.), [[fall to pieces]] (from *'flow out, away' v.t.; can be formally identical with [[madeō]]), Skt. <b class="b2">mádati</b> (themat. root-pres.), <b class="b2">ma-mát-ti</b> (redupl.) a. o. <b class="b2">be drunken, fuddle oneself, swallow, be marry</b>; further connections, partly uncertain, in Bq, WP. 2, 230ff., Pok. 694f., W.-Hofmann s. [[madeō]]; ib. more lit. Attempt to identify [[μαδαρός]] and Lat. [[madidus]] (< <b class="b2">-iro-s</b>?), in Bloch Sprachgesch. u. Wortbed. 24. - Cf. [[μαστός]] and [[μήδεα]]. - Note (as backformation?) [[μάδος]] (<b class="b3">-ον</b>) as plant-name, = <b class="b3">ἄμπελος λευκή</b> (Dsc.), because its root was used for depilation; by H. rendered with [[ψίλωθρον]], which may indicate the same plant. Besides [[μαδωνάϊς]] = [[νυμφαία]], [[water-lily]] (Boeot. acc. to Thphr. HP 9, 13; because of its humid stand?); cf. Bechtel Dial. 1, 307, who with several others changes to [[μαδωνία]] (cf. Chantraine Form. 208). - Also <b class="b3">μάδισος δίκελλα</b>. <b class="b3">οἱ δε μαδιβός</b> H., prob. from [[μαδίζω]], s. above a. Chantraine 435; cf. [[τάμισος]] (from [[ταμεῖν]])? On <b class="b2">*meh₂d-</b> see Lubotsky, MSS 40 (1981)133-138.