ἄτρακτος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<b class="b3">ὁ</b>. and in Plu.2.271f, ἡ:—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[spindle]], ἄτρακτον στρέφειν <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.12</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">4.34</span>,<span class="bibl">162</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>281e</span>, etc.; λίνου μεστὸν ἄ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>1348</span> (lyr.); Ἀνάγκης ἄ. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>616c</span>; τῶν Μοιρῶν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mu.</span>401b15</span>, cf.<span class="title">IG</span> 12(7).447 (Amorgos). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[arrow]], ἄ. τοξικός <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>139</span>; <b class="b3">ἄ</b>. alone, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>290</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tr.</span>714</span>. In this sense specially Lacon., <span class="bibl">Th.4.40</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">upper part of a ship's mast</b>, <span class="bibl">Poll.1.91</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b2">spindle-shaped cautery</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Int.</span>28</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Vid.Ac.</span>4</span>. (Cf. <b class="b3">ἀτρεκής</b>, Lat. [[torqueo]].) </span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. (f.)<br />Meaning: [[spindle]] (Hdt.), also [[arrow]] (S., acc. Th. 4, 40 Laconian).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">ἄδρακτος</b> H. (LSJ Supp.), Gloss.<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἀτρακτυλ(λ)ίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> [[spindle-thistel]], [[Carthamus lanatus]] (Arist.). <b class="b3">ἀτρακίς</b> kind of thistle (Strömberg Pflanz. 105).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Compared with Skt. <b class="b2">tarku-</b> [[spindle]]. The connection with Lat. [[torqueo]], and now Myc. [[toroqejomeno]] \/[[trokʷeiomenos]]\/, is impossible (it would have given <b class="b3">π</b>, not <b class="b3">κ</b> with Schwyzer 299). The ending has been compared with <b class="b3">στρατός</b>, <b class="b3">σπάρτον</b>, but remains strange. The <b class="b3">ἀ-</b> would also remain unexplained. - Unclear also Alb. [[tjerr]] [[to spin]]. So rather a loan (from the substr.); perh. confirmed by <b class="b3">ἄδρακτος</b> and <b class="b3">ἀτρακίς</b>, if the variation <b class="b3">κ</b>\/<b class="b3">κτ</b> is old and not due to simplification ; for <b class="b3">-τος</b> cf. <b class="b3">ἄσφαλτος</b> and Chantr. Form. 300f. Skt. <b class="b2">tarku-</b> will be unrelated. - Not to [[ἀτρεκής]].