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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[lazurite]], "sapphire" (Thphr., LXX etc.; on the meaning Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 212).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σαπφείρ-ιον</b> (<b class="b3">-ππ-</b>) n. <b class="b2">colouring made of σ.</b> (pap.), <b class="b3">-ινος</b> <b class="b2">made of σ.</b> (pap., Philostr. a.o.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Semit.?<br />Etymology: Semit. LW [loanword]; cf. Hebr. [[sappīr]]. Further connection with OInd. (lex.) <b class="b2">śani-priya-</b> n. name of a dark stone (since A. Müller BB 1, 281) seems quite doubtful. However, in Semit. the word is rather a loanword (Masson, Emprunts sémit. 66 n. 2). --The word looks Pre-Greek (<b class="b3">-πφ-</b>, <b class="b3">-ειρ-ος</b>). Through Lat. sapphirus the word came in the European languages, Eng. sapphire etc. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[lazurite]], "sapphire" (Thphr., LXX etc.; on the meaning Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 212).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σαπφείρ-ιον</b> (<b class="b3">-ππ-</b>) n. <b class="b2">colouring made of σ.</b> (pap.), <b class="b3">-ινος</b> <b class="b2">made of σ.</b> (pap., Philostr. a.o.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Semit.?<br />Etymology: Semit. LW [loanword]; cf. Hebr. [[sappīr]]. Further connection with OInd. (lex.) <b class="b2">śani-priya-</b> n. name of a dark stone (since A. Müller BB 1, 281) seems quite doubtful. However, in Semit. the word is rather a loanword (Masson, Emprunts sémit. 66 n. 2). --The word looks Pre-Greek (<b class="b3">-πφ-</b>, <b class="b3">-ειρ-ος</b>). Through Lat. sapphirus the word came in the European languages, Eng. sapphire etc. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[[σάπφειρος]], ἡ,<br />a [[blue]] gem, the sapphire, or (as others [[think]]) [[lapis]] lazuli. [Prob. a Phoenician [[word]].] | |||
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