σέλινον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, Aeol. σέλιννον Choerob.in <span class="title">An.Ox.</span>2.258:—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[celery]], [[Apium graveolens]], <span class="bibl">Il.2.776</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.5.72</span>, <span class="bibl">Batr.54</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>982</span>, <span class="bibl">Eub.36</span> (pl.), <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.2.2</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">CP</span>6.11.10</span>, <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>649</span>; σελίνου σπέρμα <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.71</span>; it had curly leaves, v. [[οὖλος]] (B), and grew in marshy spots, Il. l.c., <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>9.11.10</span>; σελίνων στεφανίσκοι <span class="bibl">Anacr.54</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Theoc.3.23</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>4.1.31 (Mel.); of the chaplets with which the victors at the Isthmian and Nemean games were crowned, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>13.33</span>; <b class="b3">Κορίνθια σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">N.</span>4.88</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">I.</span>2.16</span>, <span class="title">Com.Adesp.</span>153, <span class="bibl">D.S.16.79</span>; such chaplets were also hung on tombs, τὸ σ. πένθεσι προσήκει <span class="bibl">Duris 33</span> J.: hence persons dangerously ill were said <b class="b3">δεῖσθαι τοῦ σ</b>., Plu.2.676d, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tim.</span> 26</span>; σελίνων στέφανος νοσοῦντας ἀναιρεῖ <span class="bibl">Artem.1.77</span>; mostly planted in garden borders (cf. σ. κηπαῖον Dsc.3.64), hence prov., <b class="b3">οὐδ' ἐν σελίνῳ σοὐστὶν οὐδ' ἐν πηγάνῳ</b> ''[[tis scarcely begun yet]]', <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>480</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">σ. ἄγριον</b>,= <b class="b3">βατράχιον</b>, Dsc.2.175;= <b class="b3">σμύρνιον</b>, Ps.-Dsc.3.67;= <b class="b3">ἐλεοσέλινον</b>, ib.64. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">pudenda muliebria</b>, Phot., cf. Sch.<span class="bibl">Theoc.11.10</span>. [ῐ only in <span class="title">AP</span>7.621.]</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[celery]], [[Apium graveolens]] (Il.; on the meaning Andrews ClassPhil. 44, 91 ff.), also metaph. <b class="b2">pudenda rnuliebria</b> (Phot.)<br />Other forms: (Aeol. <b class="b3">-νν-</b> gramm.).<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[serino]].<br />Compounds: Often as 2. member, e.g. <b class="b3">πετρο-σέλινον</b> n. <b class="b2">rock-celery</b> (Dsc.; Lat. <b class="b2">petro-selīnum</b>, MLat. [[petrosilium]] > NHG. [[Petersilie]]); s. Strömberg Pflanz. 33.<br />Derivatives: From this the river- and townname <b class="b3">Σελινοῦς</b>, <b class="b3">-οῦντος</b> m., as townname also f. (on the gender Schwyzer-Debrunner 33 n. 2; cf. also Leumann Hom. Wörter 300ff. and Krahe Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 2, 233) with <b class="b3">-ούντιος</b> <b class="b2">of S.</b> (Megar., Th., Str.), also <b class="b3">-ούσιος</b> (Thphr.); on the formation Schwyzer 528 and 466; but <b class="b3">-ουσία κράμβης</b> (cabbage) <b class="b3">εἶδος</b> (H., Eudem. ap. Ath.) from <b class="b3">σέλινον</b>. -- Further the late and rare <b class="b3">σελίν-ινος</b> <b class="b2">of celery</b>, <b class="b3">-ίτης οἰνος</b>, <b class="b3">-ᾶτον</b> n. = Lat. [[apiātum]].<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin](X)<br />Etymology: Without acceptable etymology; prob. foreign word like <b class="b3">κύμινον</b>, <b class="b3">ῥητίνη</b> (s. vv.). Strömberg Pflanz. 37 thinks (with Hesselman) of <b class="b3">σέλμα</b>, <b class="b3">σελίς</b> ("after the rough, hollow stalk"). To be rejected Sommer Lautst. 111 f. (s. Bq and WP. 1, 300). -- Furnée 351 points to Myc. [[sarinuwote]].