σανδαράχη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ρᾰ], ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">red sulphide of arsenic, realgar</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>604b28</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>34.177</span>, <span class="title">Peripl.M.Rubr.</span>49; written σανδαράχη in <span class="bibl">Hp. <span class="title">Morb.</span>2.14</span> (but σανδᾰράκ-κη <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Superf.</span>32</span>), Dsc.5.105, Gal.17(1).834, <span class="bibl">Alciphr.1.33</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">an orange pigment</b> made therefrom, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Lap.</span>40</span>, <span class="bibl">50</span>. (Assyr. <b class="b2">šindu arḳu</b> 'green paint', i.e. <b class="b2">yellow sulphide of arsenic</b>, <b class="b2">orpiment</b>, cf. [[ἀρσενικόν]].) </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">bee-bread</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>626a7</span>.</span>

|etymtx=-άχη<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">sandarac, red arsenic sulphide, realgar, red orpiment</b> (Hp., Arist., Thphr. a.o.), <b class="b2">bee-bread</b> (Arist.).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">σανδαρακ-ούργιον</b> n. <b class="b2">sandarac pit</b> (Str.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">-ινος</b> <b class="b2">sandarac-coloured, bright red</b> (Hdt. <b class="b3">α</b>.<b class="b3">ο</b>.), <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">to be sandarac-coloured</b> (Dsc.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Orient. LW [loanword] of unknown source. Nehring Glotta 14. 182 reminds of the PlN <b class="b3">Σανδαράκη</b> (harbour-town on the Black-Sea). Acc. to a quite uncertain supposition by Uhlenbeck PBBeitr. 19, 327ff. from OInd. <b class="b2">*candra-rāga-</b> <b class="b2">moon-coloured</b> (?), which Cuendet (s. Mayrhofer s. <b class="b2">candanaḥ</b>) would like to change in a as hypothetic <b class="b2">*candana-rāga-</b> <b class="b2">sand-coloured</b>. -- The variation <b class="b3">κ</b>\/<b class="b3">χ</b> points to a Pre-Greek word. Cf. on <b class="b3">σάνδυξ</b>.