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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[moon]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: Dor. <b class="b3">-άνα</b>, Aeol. <b class="b3">-άννα</b>.<br />Compounds: Often as 2. member, e.g. <b class="b3">ἀ-σέληνος</b> [[moonless]] (Th. a.o.).<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">σελην-αίη</b>, Dor. <b class="b3">σελαναία</b> f. = <b class="b3">σελήνη</b> (ep. poet. Il.; like <b class="b3">Ἀθηναίη</b> a. o., Schwyzer 469); 2. <b class="b3">-ιον</b> n. <b class="b2">phase of the moon, contour of the moon etc.</b> (Arist., Thphr. a. o.), also as plantname like <b class="b3">-ῖτις</b> a.o. (Strömberg 133); 3. des. of moon-shaped ornaments: <b class="b3">-άριον</b> n., <b class="b3">-ίς</b> f., <b class="b3">-ίσκος</b> m. (late); 4. <b class="b3">-ίτης</b> (<b class="b3">λί-θος</b>) m. "moonstone", [[selenite]] (Dsc. a. o.; Redard 60), also (f. <b class="b3">-ῖτις</b>) <b class="b2">moon dweller etc.</b> (Luc., Ath. a. o.); 5. <b class="b3">-ιεῖα</b> n. pl. <b class="b2">moon feast</b> (pap. IIa; Mayser I:3, 95); 6. Adj. <b class="b3">-αῖος</b> <b class="b2">moonlit, concerning the moon</b> (Orac. ap. Hdt., A. R. a. o.), <b class="b3">-ιακός</b> <b class="b2">belonging to the moon</b> (Plu. a.o.; after <b class="b3">ἡλι-ακός</b>); 7. Verb <b class="b3">-ιάζομαι</b> (Ev. Matt., Vett. Val.), also -(<b class="b3">ι)άζω</b>, <b class="b3">-ιάω</b> (Man.), <b class="b2">to be moonstruck, i.e. to be epileptic</b> with <b class="b3">-ιασμός</b> m. (Vett. Val.).<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]<br />Etymology: Formation with <b class="b3">να-</b>suffix from <b class="b3">σέλας</b> (s. v.) after the older synonym in Lat. [[lūna]] etc.; s. [[λύχνος]] and Scherer Gestirnnamen 71 ff. w. further lit. Cf. on 2. <b class="b3">μήν</b>.

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