σέλινον: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[celery]], [[Apium graveolens]] (Il.; on the meaning Andrews ClassPhil. 44, 91 ff.), also metaph. [[pudenda rnuliebria]] (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> [[of celery]], <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]].