κύαθος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[ladle]], for drawing wine out of the <b class="b3">κρατήρ</b>, <span class="bibl">Anacr.63.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.Com.176</span>, <span class="bibl">Archipp. 21</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.3.9</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PEleph.</span>5.3</span> (iii B.C.), etc.; cold metal [[ladles]] were applied to bruises, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>890b7</span>; <b class="b3">κύαθον αἰτήσεις τάχα</b> you'll need a [[ladle]] shortly (from being so soundly beaten), <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>444</span>; <b class="b3">ὑπωπιασμέναι… καὶ κυάθους προσκείμεναι</b> with [[ladles]] applied, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pax</span> 542</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>374</span>, <span class="bibl">Apolloph.3</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">Attic measure holding two</b> <b class="b3">κόγχαι</b> or [[four]] <b class="b3">μύστρα</b>, about <span class="bibl">1</span>/<span class="bibl">12</span> <b class="b2">of a pint</b>, Gal.19.753, cf. 10.516. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b3">κύαθοι κλειδῶν ἀνεστηκότες</b> filled-out [[hollows]] round the collar-bones, <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">Gym.</span>48</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">ladle for drawing wine</b> (IA.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">κυάθ-ιον</b> (Pherecr.), <b class="b3">-ίς</b> (Sophr.), <b class="b3">-ίσκος</b> (medic.); <b class="b3">κυαθ-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">k.-like</b> (Eratosth.), <b class="b3">-ιαῖος</b> <b class="b2">measuring a κ.</b> (Arist. -comm.), <b class="b3">-ότης</b> <b class="b2">the idea κύαθος</b> (Pl.; cf. Scheller Oxytonierung 29 n. 3), <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">scoop with a κ.</b> (com., Plb.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: For the ending cf. <b class="b3">λήκυθος</b>, <b class="b3">γυργαθός</b> a. o. (Chantraine Formation 367, Schwyzer 511); usu. connected with <b class="b3">κύαρ</b> (against this Chantraine l.c., but accepted again in DELG); cf. on <b class="b3">κύαμος</b>. Wrong Pisani Ist. Lomb. 73, 529 (Skt. <b class="b2">kávandha-</b>'barrel)'. Lat. LW [loanword] [[cyathus]] (Plaut.). - Szemerényi, Gnomon 43 (1971) compares Ugar. <b class="b2">qb`t</b> , Hebr. <b class="b2">qubba`at</b> [[cup]]. Clearly a Pre-Greek word (cf. DELG); Fur. 237 compares <b class="b3">κόβαθος</b> <b class="b2">a vessel</b>, and <b class="b3">κύβεθρον</b> [[beehive]](?). The sequence <b class="b3">-υα-</b> is typcical of [[foreign]] words.