κόρις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ιος, Att. εως, ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[bug]], [[Cimex lectularius]], οἱ κόρεις <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>634</span> (with a play on <b class="b3">Κορίνθιοι</b>, cf. <span class="bibl">710</span>), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ra.</span>115</span>, al.: also fem., <span class="bibl">Sor.2.29</span>, Phryn.277 (acc. to Suid. with gen. <b class="b3">κόριδος</b>, wh. is not found in Classical Gr., cf. [Gal.] 14.538). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> kind of [[fish]], = [[ἔσχαρος]], Dorioap. <span class="bibl">Ath.7.330a</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> a kind of <b class="b2">St. John's wort, Hypericum empetrifolium</b>, Dsc.3.157, <span class="bibl">Aët.16.17</span>.</span>

|etymtx=<b class="b3">-ιος</b> (<b class="b3">-ιδος</b>), <b class="b3">-εως<br />Grammatical information: m. (f.)<br />Meaning: [[bug]], [[Cimex lectularius]] (Ar., Sor., Phryn.); also a fish (Dorio, Boeot. inscr., s. Lacroix Mélanges Boisacq 2, 52; after the flat form, Strömberg Fischnamen 124) and as plant-name, [[Hypericum empetrifolium]] (Dsc., Aët.; after form and aspect of the leaves?, Strömberg Theophrastea 50).<br />Derivatives: Denomin. <b class="b3">κορίζω</b> [[be full of bugs]] (Gloss.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [938] <b class="b2">*(s)ker-</b> [[cut]]<br />Etymology: Identical with Russ. [[korь]] f. [[moth]], as old verbal noun of the verb for [[shave]], [[cut]] in <b class="b3">κείρω</b> etc. (s. v)?; so prop. "the cutting, biting"; WP. 2, 574 after Lidén Armen. Stud. 82f. (with semantic parallels) and Persson Beitr. 2, 942; diff. Solmsen Wortforsch. 161. - On the formation cf. <b class="b3">τρόπις</b>, <b class="b3">τρόφις</b>, <b class="b3">τρόχις</b> a. o. (Schwyzer 462). Cf. <b class="b3">κόριον</b> s. [[κορίαννον]]. Cf. Jouanna, RPh. 50 (1976) 32-40; Gil Fernandez, Nombres de insectos 109.