λάτρον
πρὸ συντριβῆς ἡγεῖται ὕβρις → pride goeth before destruction, pride comes before a fall, pride goes before a fall, pride goeth before a fall, pride wenteth before a fall, pride cometh before a fall, pride comes before the fall
English (LSJ)
τό,
A pay, hire (λ.· ὁ μισθός, Suid., EM557.35), λάτρων ἄτερθεν without charge or payment, A. Supp.1011.
German (Pape)
[Seite 19] τό, Arbeitslohn, Sold, Aesch. Suppl. 989, wo λατρῶν accentuirt ist; Callim. frg. 238.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λάτρον: τό, πληρωμή, μισθός, λάτρων ἄτερθε, ἄνευ πληρωμῆς, Αἰσχύλ. Ἱκέτ. 1011· ― λάτρον ὁ μισθὸς Σουΐδ., Ἐτυμολ. Μέγ. 557. 35.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (τό) :
salaire, rémunération.
Étymologie: DELG ?
Greek Monolingual
λάτρον, τὸ (Α)
μισθός εργασίας, πληρωμή.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Αβέβαιης ετυμολ. Ο τ. λάτρον εμφανίζει επίθημα -τρον (πρβλ. σήμαν-τρον). Η σύνδεση με γερμαν. βαλτοσλαβ. και ινδοϊρανικές λ. (πρβλ. γοτθ. le?) «γαιοκτησία», αρχ. σλαβ. lětb, ρωσ. letb «επιτρέπεται, είναι ελεύθερο», λιθουαν. lieta «όφελος, συμφέρον», αρχ. ινδ. rāti, αβεστ. rāiti- «δίνω πρόθυμα, γενναιοδωρία») προσκρούει σε σημασιολογικές και μορφολογικές δυσχέρειες].
Greek Monotonic
λάτρον: τό, πληρωμή, μισθός, σε Αισχύλ., στον πληθ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
λάτρον: τό плата за службу, (вообще) вознаграждение, плата: λάτρων ἄτερθεν Aesch. безвозмездно.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: n.
Meaning: payment, hire (A. Supp. 1011), = μισθός (Suid., EM).
Derivatives: Beside it, prob. as deriv. (Schwyzer 462 A. 3), λάτρις, -ιος m. f. hired servant, handmaid (Thgn., S., E.); λάτριος belonging to a hired servant or to the payment etc. (Pi., Man.); λατρεύω, El. -είω serve (for hire), serve a god (with prayer a. sacrifice) (Sol., Olympia VIa, trag., Isoc., X.) with λατρεία (trag., Pl., LXX, Ep. Rom. u. a.), λατρεύματα pl. (S., E.) service, s. of gods, λατρευ-τός (LXX), -τικός (Ptol.) belonging to a servant, servile; λατρεύς servant (Lyc.; from λατρεύω or λάτρον, Boßhardt 66), λατρώδης servile (Vett. Val.).
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: As (north) west Greek word λάτρον etc. was not only foreign to the Aeolians and Ionians, but orig. also in Athens (v. Wilamowitz Eur. Her. 389, Bechtel Dial. 1, 207, E. Kretschmer Glotta 17, 79). There is no convincing IE connection. Usually λά-τρον (on the formation Chantraine Form. 331) is considered as the zero grade parallel of some words occurring in Germ., Balt.-Slav., Indo-Iran., which all go back on a full grade IE *lē(i)-'provide, possession' (WP. 2, 394, Pok. 665). This is, however, impossible as a root *le- = *leh₁- would not give λα- in Greek. Skt. rātí-, Av. rāiti- prepared to give, f. liberality, gift; the Indo-Ir. words are uncertain because of the r-; the whole combination rests on a weak foundation. So we can be rather sure that the word is of Pre-Greek origin. - From hell. *λάτρων Lat. latrō hired soldier (Leumann Sprache 1, 207).
