μαδάω

English (LSJ)

   A to be moist or sodden, of a disease in fig-trees, Thphr.HP4.14.5.    2 of hair, fall off, Ael.NA15.18; of persons, to be bald, Ar.Pl.266, Longus 3.32, cf. Gal.16.88; μ. τὰς τρίχας Sotion p.186 W.; ἐάν τινι μαδήσῃ ἡ κεφαλή LXX Le.13.40: abs., ἐὰν μαδήσῃ if there is baldness, Hp.Mul.2.189.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

μᾰδάω: μέλλ. -ήσω, Λατ. madere, εἶμαι ὑγρὸς ἢ μαλακός, ἐπὶ νόσου τινὸς τῶν συκῶν, Θεοφρ. π. Φυτ. Ἱστ. 4. 14. 5. 2) ἐπὶ τριχῶν, «μαδῶ», ἐκπίπτω, Λατ. defluere, Αἰλ. π. Ζ. 15. 18· ἐπὶ ἀνθρώπων, εἶμαι φαλακρός, Ἀριστοφ. Πλ. 266, Λόγγος 3. 32· πρβλ. μαδίζω, μυδάω. (Πρβλ. μαδός, μαδαρός· Λατ. madeo, madesco, madidus, καὶ ἴσως τὸ manare.)

French (Bailly abrégé)

-ῶ :
tomber en parl. des cheveux.
Étymologie: R. Μαδ, être humide ; cf. lat. madeo.

Greek Monotonic

μᾰδάω: μέλ. -ήσω, είμαι πλαδαρός· είμαι φαλακρός, σε Αριστοφ.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

μαδάω: досл. течь, растекаться, выпадать (о волосах), перен. быть плешивым (πρεσβύτης μαδῶν Arph.).

Frisk Etymological English

Grammatical information: v.
Meaning: be moist (Thphr.; on a disease of a fir-tree), also fall off of hair, also with ἀπο- (Hp., Ar., Arist., LXX).
Other forms: aor. μαδῆσαι
Derivatives: μάδησις falling off of hair (Hp.), μαδαῖος being moist (Poet. de herb.; after ἰκμαῖος?). - Factitive μαδίζω, also with ἀπο-, remove the hair, pluck or singe bare (medic.) with μαδιστήριον instrument, place where depilation is carried on = ευ῝στρα (Halicarn. Ia, sch.), ὁλο-μάδιστος quite bald (Cyran.), also μάδισος (s. below); as iterative μαδάσκομαι become moist (medic. VIIp). - Expressive enlargement μα[γ]δάλλει τίλλει, ἐσθίει; μα[γ]δάλλοντες τίλλοντες, ἐσθίοντες H., cf. κναδάλλεται κνήθεται H. and Debrunner IF 21, 91. - Besides μαδαρός being moist (Hp., Arist.), bald (Luc.) with μαδαρότης baldness, falling off of the hair, the eyelashes (Hp., Gal.), μαδαρόω remove the hairs (LXX Ne. 13, 25, v. l., Crete IIa), μαδάρωσις = -ότης (Gal., Vett. Val.; prob. direct from μαδαρός, cf. Chantraine Form. 279); μαδαρ-ιάω suffer loss of hair (Cleopatra ap. Gal. 12, 405). Beside μαδαρός there is μαδι-γένειος with bald chin (Arist.); cf. χαλαρός: χαλί-φρων.
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [694] *meh₂d-? be moist, drip
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 -ēre), OIr. maidim break (out) (intr.), fall to pieces (from *'flow out, away' v.t.; can be formally identical with madeō), Skt. mádati (themat. root-pres.), ma-mát-ti (redupl.) a. o. be drunken, fuddle oneself, swallow, be marry; 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 (< -iro-s?), in Bloch Sprachgesch. u. Wortbed. 24. - Cf. μαστός and μήδεα. - Note (as backformation?) μάδος (-ον) as plant-name, = ἄμπελος λευκή (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 μάδισος δίκελλα. οἱ δε μαδιβός H., prob. from μαδίζω, s. above a. Chantraine 435; cf. τάμισος (from ταμεῖν)? On *meh₂d- see Lubotsky, MSS 40 (1981)133-138.