σκύφος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ], ὁ, and σκύφος [<b class="b3">ῠ], εος, to/</b>:—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[cup]], [[can]], esp. used by peasants, <span class="bibl">Od.14.112</span> (where Aristarch. read <b class="b3">δῶκε σκύφον</b>, Ar.Byz. <b class="b3">σκύφος</b>): neut. in <span class="bibl">Epich.83</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>390</span>,<span class="bibl">411</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>146</span>, <span class="bibl">Epig.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Alex. 130</span>, <span class="bibl">Archipp.7</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>327.26</span>, al. (iii B.C.); masc. in <span class="bibl">Alcm.34</span>, <span class="bibl">Anacr.82</span> (where σκύπφον), <span class="bibl">Simon.246</span>, B.<span class="title">Fr.</span>17, <span class="bibl">Sophr.15</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span> 256</span>,<span class="bibl">556</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1324b17</span>, <span class="title">OGI</span>214.54 (Didyma, iii B.C.), etc.:—of wooden milk-vessels, <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.143</span>; <b class="b3">κισσοῦ σ., κίσσινον σ</b>.,= <b class="b3">κισσύβιον</b>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>390</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>146</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> perh. [[skull]] (cf. σκυφίον <span class="bibl">11</span>), <span class="title">PMag.Par.</span> 1.1996, al. [ῠ:—but σκύπφος in Hes.<span class="title">Frr.</span>165,166, Anaximand. Hist. <span class="bibl">1</span> J., <span class="bibl">Panyas.4</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).110 (Delos, iii B.C.), al.]</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. n.<br />Meaning: [[drinking-cup]], [[beaker]] (ep. poet. ξ 112, rarely Arist., hell. inscr. a. o.); on the mean. Brommer Herm. 77, 360; on the gender Egli Heteroklisie 75 f.<br />Derivatives: Dimin. <b class="b3">σκυφ-ίον</b> n. also [[skull]] (Paul. Aeg.), <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b> (?; EM), <b class="b3">-άριον</b> (gloss.); adj. -(<b class="b3">ε)ιος</b> <b class="b3">σ</b>.-like' (Stesich.); subst. <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> n. = <b class="b3">σκύφος</b> (A. Fr. 184 = 308 M.; enlargement, Chantraine Form. 186), <b class="b3">-ών</b>, <b class="b3">-ῶνος</b> m. mean. unclear (Gal.). Quite doubtful <b class="b3">σκυξιφόν σκύφον</b> H. (after Baunack Phil. 70, 370 joking enlargement).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: Isolated. The cimilarity with <b class="b3">σκάφος</b>, <b class="b3">-η</b> is obvious (cf. Curtius 715). The <b class="b3">υ-</b>vowel from <b class="b3">κύπελλον</b>, <b class="b3">κύτος</b>, <b class="b3">κύμβη</b> (cf. Egli 76)? -- Furnée 176 compares <b class="b3">κύβος</b> ...<b class="b3">Πάφιοι δε τὸ τρύβλιον</b> H. etc.; uncertain.