σκόπελος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, prop. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[lookoutplace]]: hence [[peak]], [[headland]], [[promontory]], Hom., esp. in <span class="bibl">Od., 12.73</span>, <span class="bibl">80</span>,<span class="bibl">430</span>, al.; <b class="b3">προβλὴς σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Il.2.396</span>; φάραγγος σ. ἐν ἄκροις <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>143</span> (lyr.); σ. πέτρας <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span> 274</span>; <b class="b3">Θηβᾶν σ</b>., of the Theban acropolis, <span class="bibl">Pi. <span class="title">Fr.</span>196</span>; <b class="b3">ἐμοὶ</b> (sc. <b class="b3">Κρεούσης</b>) <b class="b3"> σ</b>., of the Athenian, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span> 871</span> (anap.), cf. <span class="bibl">1434</span>,<span class="bibl">1578</span>; σ. νιφόεντα Μίμαντος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>273</span> (anap.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">watch-tower</b>, PLips.70.2 (ii A.D.), etc.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">cliff, rock, mountain-peak</b> (mostly ep. poet. Β 396), <b class="b2">watch-tower</b> (pap.), <b class="b3">-ον</b> n. [[earth wall]], [[hill]] (LXX).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σκοπελ-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">to set up a watch-tower</b> with <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> m. (Ulp. in Dig.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: The prob. later meaning <b class="b2">watch-tower</b> originated clearly through the association with <b class="b3">σκοπ-ός</b>, <b class="b3">-ιά</b>, <b class="b3">-έω</b>, but also in the sense of [[clif]], [[rock]] one has since antiquity connected the word with <b class="b3">σκοπός</b>, <b class="b3">-έω</b> and interpreted as "look out", an etymolog, which because of its good achoring in the Greek vocabulary seems to earn preference above the connection with IE <b class="b2">*skep-</b> [[cut]] (Solmsen Wortforsch. 210 f.; cf. [[σκέπαρνος]] [but se s.v.] and <b class="b3">κόπτω</b>). Cf. also Chantraine Form. 244 w. lit. -- An agreeing Illyr. <b class="b2">*skapela-</b> [[cliff]] Krahe PBBeitr. 69, 486 ff. wants to find in the river-name [[Schefflenz]] (OHG [[Scaflenza]] from <b class="b2">*Scapi-lantia</b>); cf. on this Porzig Gliederung 150 f. Lat. LW [loanword] [[scopulus]]. -- An IE root <b class="b2">*skep-</b> [[cut]] seems not to exist. That a word for [[cliff]], [[rock]] developed from <b class="b2">watch-tower</b> may be possible in reality but is linguistically not very probable.