λεκάνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], ἡ, (λέκος) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[dish]], [[pot]], [[pan]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>907</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">V.</span>600</span>, al., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGrenf.</span>1.14</span> (ii B.C.), etc.; [[basin]], IG42(1).122.57 (Epid., iv B.C.); [[hod]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>840</span>, <span class="bibl">1143</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1672.184; cf. [[λακάνη]]:—Dim. λεκαν-ίδιον, τό, <span class="bibl">Poll.10.84</span>, <span class="bibl">Eust.1402.16</span>:</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[basin]], [[dish]] (Ar., inscr., pap.)<br />Other forms: hell. [[λακάνη]] (with regressive assimilation, <b class="b3">-ίσκη</b> H.)<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">λεκάν-ιον</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b> (Poll., Eust.), <b class="b3">-ίς</b> f. (Ar., Plu., Luc.), <b class="b3">-ίσκη</b> f. (com.). Also [[λέκος]] n. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hippon.) with [[λεκάριον]] (hell.), [[λεκίς]] f. (Epich.), <b class="b3">-ίσκος</b> m. (Hp.) <b class="b2">id.</b>; <b class="b3">-ίσκιον</b> as measure (Hp.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: With [[λεκάνη]] cf. [[πατάνη]], [[οὑράνη]] a. other names of utensils in <b class="b3">-άνη</b>, <b class="b3">-ανον</b> in Chantraine Form. 197ff., Schwyzer 489f.; beside it [[λέκος]] as [[ἄγγος]]; [[λέκος]]: [[λεκάνη]] like [[στέφος]] : [[στεφάνη]], [[ἕρκος]] : [[ἑρκάνη]] (late; s. on [[ἕρκος]]). - Connections outside Greek are uncertain; usually [[λέκος]], [[λεκάνη]] together with Lat. [[lanx]] [[dish]] are as *lowering, bending inward' derived from a great group of words from [[bend]], [[bow]] (IE (<b class="b2">*el-ek-</b>), with also [[λοξός]] and [[λέχριος]] (s. vv.); s. WP. 1, 157f., Pok. 308, W.-Hofmann s. [[lanx]]; this is certainly wong, as the word is Pre-Greek; thus Ernout-Meillet s. [[lanx]]. - From [[λεκάνη]] Arab. [[leken]], Osm. [[lejen]] > NGr. <b class="b3">τὸ λεγένι</b> [[bowl]], [[dish]], ORuss. [[legin]] [[kind of vase]]; Maidhof Glotta 10,13, Vasmer Wb. s. v. (cf. also on <b class="b2">lochánь</b>).