στύραξ: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=1. <b class="b3">-ακος</b><br />Grammatical information: m. f.<br />Meaning: des. of a gummi and of the producing shrub or tree <b class="b2">Styrax officinalis</b> (Hdt., Arist., Thphr., Str. a.o.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">στυράκ-ιον</b> n. dimin. (pap.), <b class="b3">-ινος</b> <b class="b2">made of styrax-tree or of styrax</b> (LXX, Str., Dsc. a.o.), <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">to smell or taste like styrax</b> (Dsc.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Semit.<br />Etymology: On the formatiom cf. <b class="b3">ὄμφαξ</b>, <b class="b3">δόναξ</b>, <b class="b3">ἄνθραξ</b> a.o. -- After Hdt. 3, 107 introduced into Greece by the Phoenicians, what points to Semitic origin. Lagarde and Lewy Fremdw. 41 f. compare Hebr. <b class="b2">ṣorī</b> <b class="b2">the resin of the Mastix tree and the terebinth</b>; doubts in Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 501. -- With the tree-name is prob. 2. <b class="b3">στύραξ</b> identical; to be noted, beside <b class="b3">μελίη</b> [[ash]] and <b class="b2">(staff of a) spear</b>, esp. the <b class="b3">στυράκινα ἀκοντίσματα</b> in Str. 12, 7, 3. -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[styrax]], [[storax]], from where OE [[stor]], OHG [[storr]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (W.-Hofmann s. v. w. lit.).<br />2. <b class="b3">-ακος</b><br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">(lower end of a) spear-shaft</b> (X., Pl. a.o.).<br />Derivatives: Dimin. <b class="b3">στυράκ-ιον</b> n. (Th., Aen. Tact.); <b class="b3">-ίζειν κεντρίζειν</b> H., EM.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Formation like <b class="b3">χάραξ</b>, <b class="b3">κάμαξ</b> a.o., acc. to usual interpretation (e.g. Persson Beitr. 2, 714, WP. 2, 608) to <b class="b3">σταυρός</b> with zero grade with short vowel; cf. <b class="b3">στῦλος</b>, <b class="b3">στύω</b>. -- Prob. rather identical with the tree-name; s. 1. <b class="b3">στύραξ</b>. -- The word may well be Pre-Greek.