κάνναβις: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-ιος, -εως<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[hemp]], [[Cannabis sativa]] (Hdt., S., Dsc., Gal.).<br />Other forms: Also [[κάνναβος]] (Poll. 10, 176).<br />Derivatives: [[καννάβιον]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Ps.-Dsc., Gp.), [[κανναβίς]], <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f. [[dress of hemp]], pl. [[hemp seeds]], [[which are burnt and used at a steam-bath]] (Hdt., Ephipp. Com.); from there <b class="b3">κανναβισθῆναι πρὸς την κάνναβιν ἐξιδρῶσαι καὶ πυριασθῆναι</b> H.; [[κανναβίσκα]] n. pl. [[hemp-shoes]] (Herod. 7, 58); [[καννάβινος]] [[from hemp]], [[hemp-like]] (AP ); [[κανναβάριος]] member of a professional organisation = [[stupparius]] (Ephesos, Gloss.; Wahrmann Glotta 22, 42f.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Orient.<br />Etymology: Loan of unknown eastern origin, perhaps Scythian or Thracian (Hdt. 4, 74f.); cf. alo Sumer. [[kunibu]] [[hemp]]. From [[κάνναβις]] Lat. [[cannabis]]; the word reached the Germans (OE. [[hoenep]], OHG [[hanaf]] etc.) before Grimm's law. Cf. Vasmer s. <b class="b2">konopljá</b> (1, 615); s. also W.-Hofmann s. [[cannabis]], Pisani Sprache 1, 138. - Fur. 343 connects [[κόμβος]], on insufficient grounds