ἀλέα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), [ᾰλ], Ion. ἀλέη, ἡ, (ἄλη, ἀλέομαι) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[avoiding]], [[escape]], ἐγγύθι μοι θάνατος . . οὐδ' ἀλέη <span class="bibl">Il.22.301</span> (not in Od.); οὐκ ἔστιν ἀ. οὐδὲ σκέπη Hp.Aër.19: c.gen., [[shelter from]] athing, ὑετοῦ <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Op.</span>545</span>.—Ep.and Ion. word. ἀλέα (B), [ᾰλ], Ion. ἀλέη, ἡ, contr. ἀλῆ Androm. ap. Gal.14.33, cj. in <span class="bibl">Babr.18.11</span> :—[[warmth]], [[heat]], of fire, <span class="bibl">Od.17.23</span> (not in Il.), <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Mis.</span>341c</span>; generally, [[warmth]], or [[warm spot]], ἐν ἀλέῃ γενέσθαι <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VM</span>16</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Diocl.Fr.141</span>; ἐσενεγκὼν ἐς ἀ. Hp.Aër.8; χρέεσθαι περιπάτοις ἐν ἀ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Vict.</span>3.68</span>; ἐν ἀ. κατακείμενος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>541</span>; <b class="b3">ἀλέας καὶ ψύχους</b> [[in heat]] and cold, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Erx.</span>401d</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1148a8</span>; <b class="b3">πνῖγος καὶ ἀ</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>1026b34</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν ταῖς ἀ</b>. in the [[hot season]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pr.</span>939b9</span>: later, [[animal]], [[bodily heat]], Plu.2.131d, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>3.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Aristid.<span class="title">Or.</span>48</span> (<span class="bibl">24</span>).<span class="bibl">22</span>; generally, <b class="b2">source of warmth</b>, <b class="b3">τὸ ἔριον ἡμῖν κόσμος καὶ ἀ</b>. <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>1.21</span>, etc.: in pl., [[fomentations]], Alex. Trall.<span class="title">Febr.</span>3.</span>

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[warmth]], spec. of the sun (Hom.).<br />Other forms: Ion. <b class="b3">ἀλέη</b>. Also <b class="b3">ἁλέα</b>?, cf. <b class="b3">ἀλεαίνειν</b> below.<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">ἐπαλής</b> s. s.v.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἁλυκρός</b> [[lukewarm]] (Nic.), after <b class="b3">θαλυκρός</b> (or from fals split <b class="b3">θ</b><b class="b3">ἁλυκρός</b>?). Cf. <b class="b3">ἀλυκτρόν εὔδινον</b> H.; <b class="b3">ἀλεόν θερμὸν η χλιαρόν</b> H.; <b class="b3">ἀλεής</b> (S. Ph. 859; not <b class="b3">ἀδεής</b> with Reiske). - Denom. verb: <b class="b3">ἀλεαίνω</b> <b class="b2">warm (oneself)</b> (Hp.), in Attic aspirated acc. to Eust. 1636: <b class="b3">ἁλ-</b>.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1045] <b class="b2">*suelH-</b> [[singe]], [[burn]]<br />Etymology: With suffix <b class="b3">-έα</b> (Chantr. Form. 91) from the verb seen in Germanic and Baltic: OE [[swelan]] [[burn slowly]], NHG [[schwelen]] , Lith. <b class="b2">svìlti</b> [[singe]] (intr.). So <b class="b3">*hϜαλ-</b> < <b class="b2">*su̯l̥H-</b>. S. <b class="b3">εἵλη</b>. - Rejected by Szemerényi, Gnomon 43 (1971) 653, who connects MIr. [[allas]] [[sweat]] [?] and Hitt. [[alliyanzi]] <b class="b2">they get warm</b>; also Lat. [[adoleo]].<br />2. See also: [[ἀλέομαι]]