στέμβω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">shake about, agitate</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>440</span>; <b class="b2">misuse, handle roughly</b>, <span class="bibl">Eust.235.8</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: = <b class="b3">κινῶ συνεχῶς</b> (EM), <b class="b2">to shake ceaselessly</b> (A. Fr. 440 = 635 M., also EM a.o. as explanation of <b class="b3">ἀστεμφής</b>), <b class="b2">to abuse, to vilify</b> (Eust.).<br />Other forms: enlarged <b class="b3">στεμβ-άζειν λοιδο-ρεῖν</b>, <b class="b3">χλευάζειν</b> H., <b class="b3">-άξαι ὑβρίσαι</b> (EM), <b class="b3">-άσεις λοιδιρίαι</b> H.; <b class="b3">ἀστέμβακτον</b> (<b class="b3">κλέος</b>, Euph.) = <b class="b3">ἀκίνητον η βέβαιον η τετιμημένον</b> (Et. Gud.); unclear <b class="b3">ἀστέμβακτα τιμωρουμένη</b> (Lyc. 1117); also <b class="b3">ἀστεμβής ἀθαμβής</b>, <b class="b3">ἀτάραχος</b> H. See also bel.<br />Derivatives: Beside it without nasal: <b class="b3">στόβος λοιδορία</b>, <b class="b3">ὄνειδος</b> (Lyc., H.), <b class="b3">στοβ-άζειν κακολογεῖν</b>. <b class="b3">-ασμάτων λοιδοριῶν</b> H., (<b class="b3">ἐπι-)στοβέω</b> <b class="b2">to mock, to taunt</b> (A. R., Epic. anon., EM). -- With aspirata: <b class="b3">ἀστεμφής</b> = <b class="b3">ἀμετακίνητος</b> (H.), [[unshakable]], [[firm]] (ep. Il.). On <b class="b3">στέμφυλα</b> n. pl. <b class="b2">squeezed olives or grapes, olive-, grape-mass</b> (IA.) s.v. -- With <b class="b2">o-</b>ablaut: <b class="b3">στόμφ-ος</b> m. <b class="b2">bombastic, high-flown speech</b> (Longin.), <b class="b3">-αξ</b>, <b class="b3">-ακος</b> m. <b class="b2">bombastic speaker, loudmouth</b> (Ar. Nu. 1367; from Aesch.), <b class="b3">-άζω</b> <b class="b2">to speak bombastically, to talk big</b> (Ar. a.o.) with <b class="b3">-ασμός</b>, <b class="b3">-αστικός</b> (Eust.); <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Phld.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b>, <b class="b3">-ός</b> (sch.). Beside it <b class="b3">στόμβος</b> =- <b class="b3">βαρύηχος</b>, <b class="b3">βαρύφθογγος</b> (Hp. ap. Gal.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (V)<br />Etymology: To the varying form of the above words (see Schwyzer 333 a. 692) correpond an as varying content. For <b class="b3">στέμβω</b> a meaning <b class="b2">push violently, shake caeselessly</b> is fitting, also for <b class="b3">ἀστεμ-φής</b> [[unshakeable]] (diff., hardly correct, s. v.). From there [[maltreat]], [[revile]], [[ridicule]] in <b class="b3">στέμβω</b>, <b class="b3">-άζω</b>, <b class="b3">στόβος</b>, <b class="b3">-έω</b>? Unclear remain thus <b class="b3">στόμφος</b>, <b class="b3">-αξ</b> etc. -- An attractive connection seems possile with the Germ. deverbative OHG [[stampfōn]], MLD [[stampen]], OSw. [[stampa]] etc. [[stampfen]], smash' with OHG [[stampf]] m. <b class="b2">instrument with which to struck etc.</b>, PGm. <b class="b2">*stamp-</b> (IE <b class="b2">*stomb-</b>); s. WP. 2, 623f., Pok. 1011 ff., also W.-Hofmann s. [[temnō]] (to be kept away), but cf. on [[στέφω]]. -- The forms without nasalization show that the word is Pre-Greek (not in Furnée); further note the variation <b class="b3">στόμφος</b> - <b class="b3">στόμβος</b>.