αὐχμός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[drought]], <span class="bibl">Emp.111.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.13</span>,<span class="bibl">4.198</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Aph.</span>3.7</span>: in pl., <span class="bibl">Th.1.23</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.9.14</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Num.</span>13</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">ὥσπερ αὐχμός τις τῆς σοφίας</b> [[drought]], [[dearth of]]... <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Men.</span>70c</span>; so perh. αὐχμὸς τῶν σκευαρίων <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>839</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[effects of drought]], [[squalor]], μεστὰς αὐχμοῦ τε καὶ κόνεως <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>614d</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of style, [[dryness]], [[meagreness]], <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Dem.</span> 44</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> [[thirst]], <span class="bibl">D.Chr.7.152</span>. (Perh. akin to <b class="b3">αὖος</b>.) </span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">drought; squalor</b> (Hp.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">αὐχμηρός</b> [[dry]], [[dirty]] (Hp.; Chantr. Form. 232f.). - Denom. <b class="b3">αὐχμέω</b>, also <b class="b3">αὐχμάω</b>, [[be dry]], [[dirty]] (Od.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: To <b class="b3">αὖος</b> with <b class="b3">-χμ-</b>, of which the origin is unclear, s. Schwyzer 493 n. 4. Note that Demiraj, Alb. Etym. s.v. [[thaj]] refers to a reconstruction <b class="b2">*sauk-no</b>, which would mean that the word is not cognate with <b class="b3">αὖος</b>. Cf. also <b class="b3">σαυκόν ξηρόν</b>, <b class="b3">σαυχμόν</b> (s.v.). Perhaps Pre-Gr.