κίσηρις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=( κίσηλις <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHolm.</span>12.11</span>, implied in <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Jud.Voc.</span>4</span>), εως (Luc.l.c., -ιδος Thphr. (v. infr.), cf. <span class="bibl">Choerob.<span class="title">in Theod.</span>1.329</span> H.), ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">pumice-stone</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>320.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Alex.124.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1111a13</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Lap.</span>22</span>, etc. [ῐ in Comm. ll.cc., <span class="title">AP</span>6.295 (Phan.): <b class="b3">κίσσηρις</b> is erroneous in Thphr.l.c., <span class="bibl">Asp.<span class="title">in EN</span>65.4</span>.]</span>

|etymtx=-εως</b>, <b class="b3">-ιδος<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">pumice-stone</b> (Ar., Arist., Thphr.).<br />Other forms: also <b class="b3">κίσηλις</b> (pap., Luc.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κισήριον</b> (EM), <b class="b3">κισηρο-ειδής</b> and <b class="b3">κισηρώδης</b> <b class="b2">like p.</b> (Diog. Apoll., hell.); <b class="b3">κισηρόομαι</b> <b class="b2">be changed into p.</b> (Thphr.), <b class="b3">-ρίζω</b> <b class="b2">make smooth with p.</b> (Nic. Dam.)<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained foreign word; on the matter cf. Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 146. Fur. 117 compares <b class="b3">γίσσα</b> and Caucasian (and Basque) forms. No doubt Pre-Greek.