διφθέρα: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[prepared skin]], [[hide]], [[leather]], also leather objects (Ion.-Att.);<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[diptera]] ([[diptera₃]]) [[leather]] \/[[diphthera]]\/; [[dipteraporo]] \/[[diphthera-phoros]]?\/<br />Derivatives: Diminut. [[διφθέριον]] (Theognost.); [[διφθερίς]] = [[διφθέρα]] (AP); [[διφθέρωμα]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Thd.;); [[διφθερίας]] <b class="b2">man in leathern jerkin, landmann etc.</b> (Com.; Chantraine 93); f. [[διφθερῖτις]] (Poll.; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 114); [[διφθεράριος]] [[pergamentmaker]] (Edict. Diocl. Asin.); [[διφθέρινος]] <b class="b2">made of δ., leathern</b> (X.). - Denomin. [[διφθερόομαι]] [[be dressed in hides]] (Str.). Note <b class="b3">διψάρα δέλτος</b>, <b class="b3">οἱ δε διφθέρα</b> H. (cf Schwyzer 326).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: To [[δέφω]], [[δέψω]] (de Saussure MSL 7, 91). [[ε]]\/[[ι]] is frequent in Pre-Greek (there was no phoneme [[e]]). [[δίψαρα]] shows typical Pre-Greek variation. Fur. 308, 326. - On Iranian LW [loanword] from [[διφθέρα]], i.e. NPers. [[daftar]] [[office]], s. Bailey, Trans. Phil. Soc. 1933, 50. From here Lat. [[littera]], perhaps via Etruscan (cf. <b class="b3">διφθεραλοιφός γραμματοδιδάσκαλος παρὰ Κυπρίοις Η</b>.)