κάνναβις: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=<b class="b3">-ιος</b>, <b class="b3">-εως<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[hemp]], [[Cannabis sativa]] (Hdt., S., Dsc., Gal.).<br />Other forms: Also <b class="b3">κάνναβος</b> (Poll. 10, 176).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">καννάβιον</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Ps.-Dsc., Gp.), <b class="b3">κανναβίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f. <b class="b2">dress of hemp</b>, pl. <b class="b2">hemp seeds, which are burnt and used at a steam-bath</b> (Hdt., Ephipp. Com.); from there <b class="b3">κανναβισθῆναι πρὸς την κάνναβιν ἐξιδρῶσαι καὶ πυριασθῆναι</b> H.; <b class="b3">κανναβίσκα</b> n. pl. <b class="b2">hemp-shoes</b> (Herod. 7, 58); <b class="b3">καννάβινος</b> <b class="b2">from hemp, hemp-like</b> (AP ); <b class="b3">κανναβάριος</b> member of a professional organisation = [[stupparius]] (Ephesos, Gloss.; Wahrmann Glotta 22, 42f.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Orient.<br />Etymology: Loan of unknown eastern origin, perhaps Scythian or Thracian (Hdt. 4, 74f.); cf. alo Sumer. [[kunibu]] [[hemp]]. From <b class="b3">κάνναβις</b> Lat. [[cannabis]]; the word reached the Germans (OE. [[hoenep]], OHG [[hanaf]] etc.) before Grimm's law. Cf. Vasmer s. <b class="b2">konopljá</b> (1, 615); s. also W.-Hofmann s. [[cannabis]], Pisani Sprache 1, 138. - Fur. 343 connects <b class="b3">κόμβος</b>, on insufficient grounds