στίλβω: Difference between revisions

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|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">to shine, to gleam, to shimmer</b>(Il.)<br />Other forms: Aor. <b class="b3">στίλψαι</b> (rare a. late) (esp. ep. poet. Il., late prose).<br />Compounds: Also w. <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b> a.o.<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">στίλβ-η</b> f. [[lamp]] (com.), <b class="b3">Ἀττικοὶ δε ἔσοπτρον</b> H. 2. <b class="b3">-ηδών</b>, <b class="b3">-όνος</b> f. [[brilliance]], [[shimmer]] (Thphr., Phld. a.o.; cf. <b class="b3">λαμπηδών</b>). 3. <b class="b3">στίλψις</b> f. <b class="b2">the sparkling</b> (Tz.). 4. <b class="b3">στιλβ-άς</b> (<b class="b3">γῆ</b>) [[shimmering]] (late). 5. <b class="b3">-αῖος</b> = [[coloratus]] (gloss.). 6. <b class="b3">-ηδόν</b> adv. [[gleaming]], [[sparkling]] (Suid.). 7. <b class="b3">-ων</b>, <b class="b3">-οντος</b> a. <b class="b3">-ωνος</b> m. name of the planet Mercury (Arist. a.o.; Scherer Gestirnnamen 89 f.), also PN as <b class="b3">Στίλπων</b>. 8. <b class="b3">στιλβός</b> [[gleaming]] (Gal.) with <b class="b3">-ότης</b> f. (v. l. for <b class="b3">στιλπνότης</b> Plu.), <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">to make shine</b> (LXX, Dsc.), from which <b class="b3">-ωσις</b>, <b class="b3">-ωμα</b>, <b class="b3">-ωθρον</b>, <b class="b3">-ωτής</b> (LXX, Dsc. a..). -- Beside it <b class="b3">στιλπνός</b> [[shining]], [[sparkling]] (Ξ 351, Arist. a.o.) with <b class="b3">-ότης</b> (Gal., Plu. a.o.), <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">to polish</b> (Arr., Gal.) with <b class="b3">-ωτής</b> (Lyd.); cf. <b class="b3">θαλπνός</b>, <b class="b3">τερπνός</b> a.o.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. As a sequence <b class="b2">-ilb</b>\/<b class="b2">p-</b> for the Indo-European phonological system is unacceptable, the word can at least in this form not have been inherited. A more than uncertain combination with a Celt. word for [[eye]], [[aspect]], Ir. [[sell]], [[sellaim]] etc., in Fick 2, 313 a.o. (s. Bq and WP. 2, 646, Pok. 1035). Not better Machek Rev. et. slav. 23, 63 and Listy filol. 72, 72 f. (to Russ. <b class="b2">blistátь</b> [[gleam]] ). -- Furnée 154 assumes <b class="b3">στιλπ-</b> beside <b class="b3">στιλβ-</b>, because of <b class="b3">στιλπνός</b> and <b class="b3">Στίλπων</b>. So the word seems Pre-Greek.

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