ὄγκος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[barbs of an arrow]], [[chock]] (Il., Philostr. Im., Moschio ap. Ath. 5, 208 b);<br />Other forms: beside it <b class="b3">ὄγκη γωνία</b> H.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [45] <b class="b2">*h₂enk-</b> [[bend]]<br />Etymology: Identical with Lat. [[uncus]] m. [[hook]] (second. adj. [[curved]]); from Lat. [[uncinus]] m. [[barbed hook]] (Vitr.; cf. Leumann Lat. Gr. 225) comes Gr. [[ὄγκινος]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Poll. 1, 137 v. L, sch.). Further cognates s. [[ἀγκ-]] (<b class="b3">ἀγκ-άλη</b>, <b class="b3">-ών</b> etc.). Useless root-analyses by Specht Ursprung 189 and 253 n. 1.<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">mass, burden, weight; distinction, pride, pomposity</b>, also as notion of style (IA.); but see at the end.<br />Compounds: Often as 2. member, e.g. <b class="b3">ὑπέρ-ογκος</b> [[excessively large]], [[exaggerated]], [[haughty]] (Pl., X.), rarely as 1. member, e.g. <b class="b3">ὀγκό-φωνος</b> [[with a hollow and pompous tone]] (of a trumpet; sch.).<br />Derivatives: 1. Adj. <b class="b3">ὀγκ-ηρός</b> [[bulky]], [[extensive]], mostly metaph. [[pompous]] (Hp., X., Arist.); <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[bulky]], [[bombastic]] (Pl., X., Arist.); <b class="b3">ὀγκύλον σεμνόν</b>, [[γαῦρον]] H. with (<b class="b3">δι-)ὀγκύλλομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-υλόομαι</b> [[to be swollen]], [[to be puffed up]] (Hp., Ar.); comp. [[ὀγκότερος]] [[bulky]] (Arist.), sup. <b class="b3">-τατος</b> (AP); on the formation Schwyzer 536. 2. Verb <b class="b3">ὀγκόο-μαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b>, also w. prefix, e.g. <b class="b3">δια-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐξ-</b> <b class="b2">to become a mass, resp. to bring something off, to tower (above), to puff oneself up</b> (ion. att.) with (<b class="b3">δι-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐξ-)ὄγκωσις</b> [[bulge]], [[swelling]] (Arist., medic.), (<b class="b3">ἐξ-)ὄγκωμα</b> <b class="b2">bulge, swelling, towering (above), heap</b> (Hp., E.). -- From H.: <b class="b3">ὀγκίαι θημῶνες</b>, [[χώματα]]; <b class="b3">ὄγκη μέγεθος</b> (cf. to 1. [[ὄγκος]]).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Prop. "what is carried, load, burden" as verbal noun with <b class="b3">ο-</b>ablaut of the root seen in the reduplicated aorist [[ἐνεγκεῖν]]; s. v. (supposed to be <b class="b2">*h₁enk-</b>). - Jouanna (CRAI 1985, 31-60) holds that the meaning [[burden]] is not attested and that there is only one word [[gonflement]] from [[curvature]] (<b class="b2">*h₂onk-</b>).