ἐπίσταμαι: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[be assured]], [[know how]](Il.), also [[believe]] (Heraklit., Hdt.), first intr. as in <b class="b3">ἐπιστάμενος μεν ἄκοντι Ο</b> 282.<br />Other forms: Fut. [[ἐπιστήσομαι]] (Il.), Aor. [[ἠπιστήθην]] (Hdt., att.)<br />Compounds: Also with prefix, e. g. <b class="b3">ἐξ-</b>, <b class="b3">συν-επίσταμαι</b>.<br />Derivatives: [[ἐπιστήμων]] [[knowing about]], [[expert]] (Od.) with [[ἐπιστημονικός]] <b class="b2">of the ἐπιστήμων</b>, usu. [[belonging to knowing]], [[to knowledge]] referring to [[ἐπιστήμη]] (Arist.), [[ἐπιστημοσύνη]] (Xenokr.); also [[ἐπίστημος]] (Hp.; Chantraine Formation 152); denomin. verbs, both rare and late: [[ἐπιστημονίζομαι]] (Al.), [[ἐπιστημόομαι]] (Aq.) <b class="b2">become ἐπ.</b>. - [[ἐπιστήμη]] [[understanding]], [[knowing]], [[knowledge]] (Ion.-Att.; on the history of the meaning Snell Die Ausdrücke für die Begriffe des Wissens 81ff.); the <b class="b3">-η-</b> of the derivatives was favored by the adj. in <b class="b3">-ήμων</b>, resp. by <b class="b3">μνή-μη</b>, <b class="b3">φή-μη</b> (Chantraine 173, 148; Schwyzer 522); thus in the verbal adjective. - [[ἐπιστητός]] [[what can be understood]], [[scienticically accessible]] (Pl., Arist.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1004] <b class="b2">*si-steh₂-</b> [[stand]]<br />Etymology: From <b class="b3">*ἐπι-hίσταμαι</b> with early loss of the breath and vowel contraction (resp. hyphäresis), Wackernagel KZ 33, 20f. = Kl. Schr. 1, 699f. Through the meaning development (*stand before something > <b class="b2">be confronted with sth., take knowledge of sth.</b>?; first of practical professions, Bréal MSL 10, 59f., thus OHG [[firstān]], OE [[forstandan]]; acc. to Fraenkel REIE 2, 50ff. [[be on the track of]], [[discover]]; s. alo Snell l. c.) [[ἐπίσταμαι]] was also formally separated from [[ἵσταμαι]], what lead already in Homer to a new <b class="b3">ἐφ-ίσταμαι</b> [[stand at]]. - Acc. to others old fomation without reduplication (lit. in Schwyzer 675 n. 2), after Brugmann Grundr.2 2 : 3, 160 from an aorist <b class="b3">ἐπι-στάμενος</b>, <b class="b3">-σταίμην</b> newly formed.