μωρός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[stupid]], [[obtuse]], [[foolish]] (IA.).<br />Other forms: Att. <b class="b3">μῶρος</b> (prob. from the voc.; Schwyzer 380 and 383)<br />Compounds: Compp., most late, e.g. [[μωρολόγος]] <b class="b2">who speaks stupidities</b> with [[μωρολογία]], [[μωρολογέω]], [[μωρολόγημα]] (Arist.), [[ὑπόμωρος]] <b class="b2">rather stupid</b> (Luc.).<br />Derivatives: [[μωρία]], Ion. [[μωρίη]] f. [[stupidity]] (IA.), <b class="b3">μωρίαι ἵπποι καὶ βοῦς ὑπὸ Ἀρκάδων</b> H. (sg. <b class="b3">μωρίας</b> m. like <b class="b3">ἐρυθρίας</b> a.o.; meaning as NGr. [[ἄλογο]] = [[ἵππος]]), [[Μωρίων]] (Arc. Gramm.; to be rejected Heubeck Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 1, 281: to [[Μυρίνη]] etc.). Denominat. : 1. [[μωραίνω]] <b class="b2">be stupid, foolish</b> (A., E., X., Arist.), <b class="b2">play the fool, make foolish</b>, pass. <b class="b2">become insipid</b> (LXX, NT) with [[μώρανσις]] = [[μωρία]] (Sch.). -- 2. [[μωρόομαι]] [[become]] [[insipid]] (Hp.). -- 3. [[μωρεύω]] = [[μωραίνω]] (LXX). -- 4. [[μωρίζω]] <b class="b2">be stupid</b> (Gal.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Not well explained. Since Pictet (s. Curtius 338) usually connected with Skt. <b class="b2">mūrá-</b> [[foolish]] (?; rather <b class="b2">erschütterlich = invalid</b> after Thumb -Hauschild Hb. des Sanskrit I : 1, 271 n.) connected with ablaut <b class="b2">ō(u</b>) : [[ū]] . Brugmann Festschr. Thomsen 6 connects <b class="b2">mūrá-</b> with Skt. <b class="b2">mū́ka-</b>'dumb' (s. <b class="b3">μυκός</b>). With words of this meaning we must reckon with deviations and crosses, which makes the comparison more difficult. -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[mōrus]] [[mad]], [[silly]], s. W. -Hofmann s.v. Ngr. [[μωρό]] [[nursling]] (Andriotis Glotta 25, 17).<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[ὀξύ]], [[μάταιον]], [[ἀμβλύ]] H.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: On the gloss [[ὀξύ]] Leumann, Hom. Wörter 272 n. 18.