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|etymtx=-αντος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">corpse, a dead</b> (Pl. R. 387 c, H.), also of the Styx (S. Fr. 790) and metaphorically of wine-vinegar (Hippon.). <b class="b3">ἀλίβας· νεκρός ἦ βροῦχος ἦ ποταμός ἦ ὄξος</b> H.; other glosses s. Peiffer ad Call. fr. 216 (v.l. <b class="b3">ἁ-</b>; the vowel is perhaps long).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: The antique explanation as [[sapless]] with <b class="b3">α</b> privativum and <b class="b3">λιβάς</b> is popular etymology (defended by Lawson ClassRev. 40, 52ff., 116ff.; cf. Wilamowitz Herm. 54, 64. Wrong Immisch Arch. f. Religionswiss. 14, 449f. Furher Petersson Gr. u. lat. Wortstudien (1922) 3f. Kretschmer Glotta 28, 269 connected Etr. [[lupu]] <b class="b2">he died</b>, Lat. [[Libitina]]; possible, but uncertain. The deviant shape of the word and forms like <b class="b3">ὀκρίβας</b>, <b class="b3">κιλλίβας</b>, <b class="b3">λυκάβας</b>, <b class="b3">Κορύβαντες</b> (not to <b class="b3">βαίνω</b> of course) make it clear that this is a substr. word.
|etymtx=-αντος<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">corpse, a dead</b> (Pl. R. 387 c, H.), also of the Styx (S. Fr. 790) and metaphorically of wine-vinegar (Hippon.). <b class="b3">ἀλίβας· νεκρός ἦ βροῦχος ἦ ποταμός ἦ ὄξος</b> H.; other glosses s. Peiffer ad Call. fr. 216 (v.l. <b class="b3">ἁ-</b>; the vowel is perhaps long).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: The antique explanation as [[sapless]] with <b class="b3">α</b> privativum and <b class="b3">λιβάς</b> is popular etymology (defended by Lawson ClassRev. 40, 52ff., 116ff.; cf. Wilamowitz Herm. 54, 64. Wrong Immisch Arch. f. Religionswiss. 14, 449f. Furher Petersson Gr. u. lat. Wortstudien (1922) 3f. Kretschmer Glotta 28, 269 connected Etr. [[lupu]] <b class="b2">he died</b>, Lat. [[Libitina]]; possible, but uncertain. The deviant shape of the word and forms like <b class="b3">ὀκρίβας</b>, <b class="b3">κιλλίβας</b>, <b class="b3">λυκάβας</b>, <b class="b3">Κορύβαντες</b> (not to <b class="b3">βαίνω</b> of course) make it clear that this is a substr. word.
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|mdlsjtxt=[Deriv. [[unknown]].]<br />a [[dead]] [[body]], [[corpse]], Plat.
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