πρών: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, gen. <b class="b3">πρῶνος</b> (as pr. n., <span class="bibl">Paus.2.34.11</span> codd.), <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> πρωνός <span class="bibl">Id.2.35.4</span>, al. codd., <span class="title">AP</span>9.328 (Damostr.); Ep. dat. pl. πρώνεσσι <span class="bibl">Q.S.4.520</span>:—[[foreland]], [[headland]], Hom. only in Il., πρὼν ἰσχάνει ὕδωρ ὑλήεις <span class="bibl">17.747</span>: elsewh. in pl. <b class="b3">πρώονες</b>, <span class="bibl">8.557</span>, <span class="bibl">12.282</span>, <span class="bibl">16.299</span>; later, πρώονές τε καὶ χαράδραι <span class="bibl">Alcm.60.2</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Q.S.2.120</span>; πρῶνες ἔξοχοι <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>4.52</span>; Λοκρῶν πρῶνες <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>788</span>; Πόσειδον, ὃς Αἰγαίου μέδεις πρῶνας <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 371</span> (lyr.); ἔρημοι πρῶνες ἀνθρώπων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>116</span>; <b class="b3">πορθμοῦ κάτοπτον πρῶνα</b>, of Geraneia, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>307</span>; <b class="b3">ἀμφοτέρας ἅλιον πρῶνα κοινὸν αἴας</b>, [[forelands]] on both sides of the Hellespont, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pers.</span>132</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">π. ἅλιος</b>, of the Troad, ib.<span class="bibl">879</span>; <b class="b3">Δελφὸς π</b>., of Parnassus, <span class="title">Pae.Delph.</span>7:—Ep. also πρηών, ῶνος, ὡς δ' ὅτ' ἀπὸ μεγάλου πέτρη πρηῶνος ὀρούσῃ <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span> 437</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Al.</span>104</span>, <span class="bibl">D.P.116</span>, <span class="bibl">Coluth.14</span>,<span class="bibl">102</span>: dat. pl. πρηόσιν <span class="bibl">Call. <span class="title">Dian.</span>52</span>: in later Prose, <span class="bibl">Ant.Lib.11.1</span>, <span class="bibl">23.5</span>; also πρεών, όνος, <span class="title">AP</span>6.253 (Crin.). (Orig. πρηών, όνος, whence πρεών, όνος and ῶνος, also (contr.) πρών, <b class="b3">πρῶνος</b>, pl. <b class="b3">πρῶνες</b> (then, by 'distraction' of ω and its accent, <b class="b3">πρώονες</b>).)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[protruding rocks]], [[mountaintop]](Il.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">πρῶνος</b> or <b class="b3">πρωνός</b>, pl. <b class="b3">πρῶνες</b>, also <b class="b3">πρώονες</b> (ep. poet. Il.), also <b class="b3">πρηών</b> (Hes. Sc. 437, hell.), <b class="b3">πρεών</b> (AP), <b class="b3">-ῶνος</b>, <b class="b3">-όνος</b>.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: If one starts from the later attested <b class="b3">πρηών</b> (to which <b class="b3">πρεών</b>, <b class="b3">πρών</b>), the plur. <b class="b3">πρώονες</b>, <b class="b3">-ας</b> must be explained as a metr. conditioned false interpretation of <b class="b3">πρῶνες</b> (Schwyzer 487 n. 3 with LSJ); so basis <b class="b3">*πρηϜών</b> or <b class="b3">*πραϜών</b> (Schwyzer 377). If we assume <b class="b3">*πρώϜων</b>, <b class="b3">πρώ</b>[F]<b class="b3">ονες</b> becomes regular, but then must <b class="b3">πρηών</b> either be false analysis or old ablaut of <b class="b3">πρών</b>. For <b class="b3">*πρώϜων</b> tells undoubtedly the hardly separable <b class="b3">πρῳ̃ρα</b> (Bechtel Lex., Risch $ 26 b, Specht Ursprung 344). -- To the group of <b class="b3">πρό</b>; connection with Skt. <b class="b2">pū́rva-</b> [[frontmost]], [[earlier]] seems possible; s. <b class="b3">πρῳ̃ρα</b>. Not with Bechtel to [[πρηνής]] (s.v.), not with Prellwitz to Skt. <b class="b2">pravaṇá-</b>'falling off, prepares, sloping' (s. Mayrhofer s.v.). -- Furnée 331 asks whether <b class="b3">προύνος βουνούς</b> is a variant, or a contamination of <b class="b3">πρών βουνός</b>.