κύμινδις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ], ὁ (or ἡ, v. Sch.<span class="bibl">Il.14.291</span>), gen. -ιδος <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>392a</span>:— name of a bird, <b class="b3">ἥν τ' ἐν ὄρεσσι χαλκίδα κικλήσκουσι θεοί, ἄνδρες δὲ κύμινδιν</b> Il.l.c., cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1181</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>615b6</span>.

|elnltext=κύμινδις -ιδος, ὁ, acc. -ιν, kymindis (soort roofvogel).

|etymtx=<b class="b3">-ιος</b>, <b class="b3">-ιδος<br />Grammatical information: f. m.<br />Meaning: name of [[an unknown bird]] (Ξ 291, Ar. Av. 1181, Arist.).<br />Other forms: V.l. [[κύβινδις]]; this form was loaned by Latin (Plin. N.H. 10, 24), André, Oiseaux s.v. [[cybindis]], also [[cibinnus]] (Pol. Silv.); also [[κυβήναις]] [read [[κύβινδις]]?] <b class="b3">γλαῦξ[αις</b>] H. (thus Fur. 216 n. 57); v.l. [[κόμινδις]] Proklos.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: In antiquity identified with (sch. Av. 291) [[κικυμωΐς]] (Call.; [[κίκυμος]], <b class="b3">-υβος</b> H.) and therefore understood as [[owl]]. - Clearly a [[foreign]] word, because of the <b class="b3">νδ-</b>suffix perh. of Anatolian origin. See Heubeck Würzb. Jb. 1949--50, H. 2, 206ff; Kretschmer, Anz. Ak. Wien 1947, 14f.