σμάραγδος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">μᾰ], ἡ</b> (ὁ, <span class="bibl">Str.16.4.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">L.</span>614</span>), name of several green stones, including the <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[emerald]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.44</span>, <span class="bibl">3.41</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>110d</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Lap.</span>23</span>, al., <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>28.9</span>, al., Str.l.c., <span class="bibl">17.1.45</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>37.62</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Hld.2.30</span>, Olymp.Hist.<span class="bibl">p.466</span> D., <span class="title">PMag.Lond.</span>46.239; also μάραγδος, <span class="bibl">Men.373</span>, Com. in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>2.143.3</span>, Orph. l.c., <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>5.178</span>, <span class="bibl">18.80</span>; σφραγὶς μαράγδου <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).161 <span class="title">B</span> 44 (Delos, iii B.C.), 199 <span class="title">B</span> 59 (ibid.), but σφραγὶς σμαράγδου 203 <span class="title">B</span> 87 (ibid., iii B.C.); ζμάραγδος implied in <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Jud.Voc.</span>9</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">Σμάραγδος, ἡ</b>, name of the emerald mines in Egypt, ἀρχιμεταλλάρχου τῆς Ζμαράγδου <b class="b2">Proc.Soc.Bibl. Arch</b>. <span class="bibl">31</span> (<span class="bibl">1909</span>).<span class="bibl">323</span> (i A.D.); <b class="b3">μεταλλάρχη</b> (gen. sg.) Ζμαράκτου <span class="title">OGI</span>660.2 (Egypt, i A.D.); also Σμάραγδος ὄρος <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Geog.</span>4.5.8</span>.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f. (m.)<br />Meaning: [[emerald]] (Hdt., Pl. etc.).<br />Other forms: Also <b class="b3">μάραγδος</b> (Men., hell. inscr.), also <b class="b3">ζμάραγδος</b>, <b class="b3">-ιον</b> (inscr., pap.).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">σμαραγδο-χαίτης</b> <b class="b2">with emerald-green hair</b> (Tim. Pers.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σμαράγδ-ιον</b> n. (M. Ant.), <b class="b3">-ίτης</b> m. (<b class="b3">λίθος</b>; hell., Plin.); <b class="b3">-ινος</b> <b class="b2">of S., s.-green</b> (pap. a. o.), <b class="b3">-ειος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hld.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">s.-like</b> (sch.); <b class="b3">-ίζω</b> <b class="b2">to be s.-green</b> (D. S., Dsc.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Orient.<br />Etymology: Identical with Skt. [[marakatam]] (also [[maraktam]]) n. and Accad. [[barraqtu]], Hebr. [[bāræqæt]] <b class="b2">id.</b>. The orig. source may be Semit. (to [[brq]] [[gleam]], [[flicker]]). On Gr. <b class="b3">σμ-</b> cf. <b class="b3">Σμέρδις</b>: OP Bardiya a. o. (Schwyzer 311); also <b class="b3">σμαραγέω</b> may have been of unfluence. The later attested <b class="b3">μάραγδος</b> from Ind.? From Greek Lat. [[smaragdus]] and Pers. Arab. [[zumurrud]], from where Osman. [[zümrüd]] > Russ. <b class="b2">izumrúd</b>. -- Mayrhofer Sprache 7, 187 f. w. lit., also KEWA. s. v.; older lit. in Lewy Fremdw. 57.