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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">suffering from an infirmity</b>, of the eyes [[blind]] (on this Fraenkel KZ 72, 182), of the limbs [[lame]] etc. (B 599, Semon., Hp., Luc.).<br />Other forms: Att. <b class="b3">πῆρος</b> after Hdn. Gr. 1, 190; cf. Schwyzer 383).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">πηρο-μελής</b> [[crippled]] (AP), <b class="b3">ἄ-πηρος</b> [[unmaimed]] (Hdt.; Frisk Adj. priv. 13), opposite <b class="b3">ἔμ-πηρος</b> [[maimed]], [[crippled]] (Hdt., Hp.; Strömberg Prefix Studies 122), <b class="b3">ἔμπαρος ἔμπληκτος</b> H.; with transition to the <b class="b3">σ-</b>stems <b class="b3">ἀπηρής</b> (A. R.), <b class="b3">ἀπαρές ὑγιές</b>, <b class="b3">ἀπήρωτον</b>. H.<br />Derivatives: Enlarged <b class="b3">πηρώδης</b> H. s. <b class="b3">γυιός</b> (beside <b class="b3">νοσώδης</b>). Denomin. <b class="b3">πηρόομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b>, Dor. <b class="b3">παρ-</b>, <b class="b2">to be maimed, to maim</b> (IA., Gortyn) with <b class="b3">πήρ-ωσις</b> f. [[maiming]] (IA.), <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> n. <b class="b2">id.</b>, also <b class="b2">maimed animal</b> (Arist., Gal.). Backformation <b class="b3">πᾶρος</b> n. [[infirmity]] (Alc.; uncertain); cf. <b class="b3">κῦρος</b>, <b class="b3">μάκρος</b>.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Isolated. The usual connection with <b class="b3">πῆμα</b> (e.g. Bq, WP. 2, 8, Pok. 792), fails, as Wackernagel Unt. 235 n. 2 notes, from the vocalism: Dor. <b class="b3">παρόω</b> (Gortyn) etc. against <b class="b3">πῆμα</b> (Pi., S. in lyr.).

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