ἐλασᾶς
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English (LSJ)
ὁ, an unknown bird, Ar.Av.886.
Spanish (DGE)
-ᾶ, ὁ
orn., quizá cerceta Ar.Au.886.
• Etimología: De origen pregriego.
German (Pape)
[Seite 789] ᾶντος, ὁ, erdichteter Vogelname, Ar. Av. 886.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ᾶ (ὁ) :
sorte d'oiseau inconnu, Ar. Av. 886.
Étymologie: DELG ἐλαύνω « le chasseur » (créé par Ar. plutôt qu'appartenant à la langue).
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἐλᾰσᾶς: ᾶ ὁ эласас (неизвестный нам вид птицы) Arph.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐλασᾶς: ὁ, ἄγνωστόν τι πτηνόν, Ἀριστοφ. Ὄρν. 886.
Greek Monolingual
ἐλασᾱς, ο (Α)
όνομα άγνωστου πουλιού («ἐλασᾷ και ἐρωδιῷ και καταρράκτῃ», Αριστοφ.).
Greek Monotonic
ἐλασᾶς: ὁ, άγνωστο πτηνό, σε Αριστοφ.
Frisk Etymological English
-ᾶ
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: "hunter(?)", name of an unknown bird (Ar. Av. 886).
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]
Etymology: Formation in -ᾶς, to ἐλάσαι(?) like τρεσᾶς, χεσᾶς (Petersen Class. Phil. 32, 129); hardly to *ἔλα-σος (Solmsen Wortforsch. 245, Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 15f., Schwyzer 461). Cf. also ἐλέα, ἐλεᾶς. Poss. Pre-Greek. - DELG thinks that the word was coined by Aristophanes.
Middle Liddell
Frisk Etymology German
ἐλασᾶς: -ᾶ
{elasãs}
Grammar: m.
Meaning: "Treiber", N. eines unbekannten Vogels (Ar. Av. 886).
Etymology: Bildung auf -ᾶς zu ἐλάσαι wie τρεσᾶς, χεσᾶς (Petersen Class. Phil. 32, 129); kaum zu *ἔλασος (Solmsen Wortforsch. 245, Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 15f., Schwyzer 461 m. weiterer Lit.). Vgl. auch ἐλέα, ἐλεᾶς.
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