κότινος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ (also ἡ <span class="bibl">Theoc.5.32</span>), <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">wild olive-tree</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>621</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pl.</span>943</span>; <b class="b3">τοὺς νικῶντας στεφανώσας κοτίνου στεφάνῳ</b> (sc. at Olympia) ib.<span class="bibl">586</span>, cf. <span class="title">AP</span>9.357, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.13.2</span>; τὰ ξύλα τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ κ. <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).287 <span class="title">A</span>22 (Delos, iii B. C.): distd.from <b class="b3">ἀγριελαία</b> by Sch.<span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>236b</span> (in neut. κότινον, τό), but identified by Dsc.1.105. (In <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>592</span> the v.l. [[κοτίνῳ στεφάνῳ]] may point to <b class="b3">κοτινῷ</b> dat. of Adj. <b class="b3">κοτινοῦς</b>.)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. (f.)<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">wild olive, ἀγριελαία</b> (Ar., Thphr.; on the naming Strömberg Theophrastea 166 n. 1),<br />Compounds: as 1. member e. g. in <b class="b3">κοτινη-φόρος</b> [[wild olives carrying]] (Mosch.); <b class="b3">κοτινάς</b> f. [[the fruit of the wild olive]] (Hp.), <b class="b2">(olive) grafted upon a wild olive</b> (Poll.); on the formation Chantraine Formation 353.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained, prob. LW [loanword] (Chantraine 203, cf. Schwyzer 491). Cf. Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 131. From it Lat. [[cotinus]] [[Rhus cotinus]] (Plin.).