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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: the [[male member]] (Ar. Nu. 1014), also [[foreskin]] (medic.).<br />Other forms: Cf. [[ἀκροβυστία]] bel.<br />Derivatives: Dimin. [[πόσθιον]] n. (Hp., Ar.); <b class="b3">-ία</b> f. [[foreskin]] (Ph.), metaph. [[stye]] on the [[eyelid]] (medic.); shortened from <b class="b3">ἀκρο-ποσθ-ία</b> (s.bel.; Scheller Oxytonierung 43 n. 2) ?; <b class="b3">-ων</b>, <b class="b3">-ωνος</b> m. <b class="b2">provided with π.</b>, vulgar designation of a boy (Ar. Pax 1300; meaning unclear in Luc. Lex. 12); also PN (for it [[Βόσθων]] [Halicarn.]?; Masson Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 10, 162) like <b class="b3">-ίων</b>, <b class="b3">-ύλος</b>; id., with familiar <b class="b3">λ-</b>enlargement, <b class="b3">-αλίων</b> (Dor. inscr. around 200a); s. Taillardat Rev. de phil. 87, 249f.; <b class="b3">-αλίσκος</b> = <b class="b3">-ων</b> (Ar. Th. 291; coni. Dindorf, agreeing Taillardat [[l.c.]]). -- Compound <b class="b3">ἀκρο-ποσθ-ία</b> f. (Hp., Arist.) <b class="b3">-ιον</b> n. (Poll., Ruf.) [[foreskin]]; for this [[ἀκροβυστία]] f. <b class="b2">id.</b>, coll. the [[uncircumcised]] = [[heathendom]] (LXX, NT), prob. with euphemistic folk etymology after [[βύω]] (EM 53, 47, Blass-Debrunner $ 120, 4).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Of old conncted with [[πέος]]; <b class="b3">ποσ-</b> is then explained from <b class="b3">πέ[σ]-ος</b> with ablaut. For the ending cf. [[σάθη]], also [[κύσθος]] a.o. (Specht Ursprung 252). Other proposals by Sandsjoe Adj. auf <b class="b3">-αιος</b> 100 n. 1 (cf. Schwyzer 425 Zus. 2) and by Szemerényi Arch. Linguist. 5, 13 ff. (IE <b class="b2">*ghu̯osdh-ā</b>, to which also, through Illyr. intermediary, OCS gvozdь [[nail]], Lat. [[hasta]] [[bar]], [[javelin]], OIr. bot [[penis]] ?). -- If [[ἀκροβυστία]] contains the same word in a different shape, the word is Pre-Greek, which is quite possible for a word of this meaning.