λευκός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[hell]], [[clear]], [[white]] (Il.);<br />Compounds: many compp., some with prefix, e. g. <b class="b3">διά-</b>, <b class="b3">παρά-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπί-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπό-λευκος</b> (Strömberg Prefix Studies 161).<br />Derivatives: 1. Substantiv. with oppositive accent (Schwyzer 380 a. 420) : [[λεύκη]] f. [[white efflorescence]] (IA.), [[white poplar]] (Att., hell.) with [[λεύκινος]] [[of white poplar]] (Arist., hell. inscr. ), [[Λευκαῖος]] surn. of Zeus (Paus.), [[λευκαία]] (<b class="b3">-έα</b>) <b class="b2">white poplar etc.</b> (pap.); [[λεῦκος]] m. name of an unknown fish (Theoc.) with [[λευκίσκος]] m. [[white mullet]] (Hikes. ap. Ath., Gal.), s. Strömberg Fischnamen 22 f., Thompson Fishes s. vv. 2. f. [[λευκάς]] [[white]] (Nic.), as subst. rock- and islandname (ω 11), also plantname [[Lamium]] (Dsc.). 3. Further subst.: [[λευκότης]] f. [[whiteness]] (IA.), [[λευκίτας]] m. name of he-goat (Theoc. 5, 147; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 113), [[λεύκηθρον]] plantname (Dsc. 3, 96; v. l. [[λάκηθρον]]; Strömberg Pflanzennamen 147); [[Λεύκαρος]] (< <b class="b3">-αλος</b>?), <b class="b3">-αρίων</b> PN (Epich., inscr.; Schulze Kl. Schr. 115 n. 3, v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1,65A.1; Leumann Glotta 32, 223 n. 2; also [[Δευκαλίων]] with diff. dissimilation?, s. Schulze l.c.); after Krahe IF 58, 132 Illyr. (beside GN [[Λευκάριστος]]), s. also Mayer Glotta 32, 82. - 4. Verbs: a. [[λευκαίνω]] <b class="b2">make white, colour ...</b> (μ 172; cf. Treu Von Homer zur Lyrik 219) with [[λεύκανσις]] (Arist.), [[λευκασία]] (PHolm., Cyran.; on the formation Schwyzer 469) <b class="b2">bleaching, making white etc.</b>; also as rivern. in Messenia beside [[Λευκάσιον]] Arc. GN (Krahe Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 2, 237; 5, 106 a. 217); [[λευκαντής]], <b class="b3">-τικός</b> [[white-painter]] resp. <b class="b2">-painting</b> (Gloss., sch.). b. [[λευκόομαι]], <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">become white, make λευκός </b> (Pi., Att.) with [[λεύκωμα]] [[table painted white]] (Att.), [[white speck in the eye]] (Arist., pap.) with <b class="b3">-ωματικός</b>, <b class="b3">-ωματώδης</b>, <b class="b3">-ωματίζομαι</b> (medic., sch.); [[λεύκωσις]] = [[λευκασία]] (PHolm. 3, 6 [cf. Lagercrantz ad loc.]), <b class="b3">-ωτής</b> (<b class="b3">-ωτός</b>?; Att. inscr., meaning unknown). c. [[λευκαθέω]] only ptc. gen. pl. [[λευκαθεόντων]] [[gleaming white]] (Hes. Sc. 146), metr. reshaping at verse-end for [[λευκαθόντων]] from [[λευκάθω]] (Wackernagel Glotta 14, 44 ff. = Kl. Schr. 2, 852 ff.), with [[Λευκαθέα]], with secondary <b class="b2">o-</b>vowel [[Λευκοθέα]] (Od., Pi.) name of a goddess, with <b class="b3">τὰ Λευκάθεα</b> feast on Teos, <b class="b3">-θεών</b> monthname (Ion.); lengthened form [[λευκαθίζω]] [[gleam white]] (Hdt., LXX), also <b class="b3">-ανθίζω</b> (after [[ἄνθος]]; empire), s. Wackernagel l.c. - On [[λεύσσω]] [[see]] s. v.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [687] <b class="b2">*leuk-</b> [[white]]<br />Etymology: As original verbal noun with Skt. <b class="b2">rocá-</b> [[lighting]] identical, to <b class="b2">rócatē</b> [[light]]. An old ablauting verbal noun is Lat. [[lūcus]] [[wood]], [[forest]], prop. [[lighting]] (with [[Jūnō Lūcīna]] ; s. Leumann Sprache 6, 156ff.), Lith. <b class="b2">laũkas</b> [[field]], Germ., e. g. OHG [[lōh]] [[overgrown lighting]], Skt. <b class="b2">loká-</b> m. [[free space]], [[world]], IE <b class="b2">*louko-s</b> m. To this great wordgroup belongs from Greek a. o. [[λεύσσω]], [[λύχνος]], [[λοῦσσον]], s. vv.