Σιληνός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[Silenus]], often in plur. as a des. of mythical creatures, that act as companions of nymphs and of Dionysos, and that are, like the centaurs, depicted with horselike characteristics (h.Ven. 262).<br />Other forms: Dor. [[Σιλανός]].<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σιλην-ώδης</b> [[silenus-like]], <b class="b3">-ικός</b> <b class="b2">concerning the S.</b> (Pl. Smp.; Chantraine Études 150). PN <b class="b3">Σιλην-ός</b> (<b class="b3">-αν-ός</b>), <b class="b3">-ίων</b>.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Like the word [[σάτυρος]] (s. v. w. lit.) etymol. dark. Kretschmer Glotta 2, 398 reminds of a Thrac. word for wine, [[ζίλαι]], [[ζειλα]], [[ζελᾶς]], [[ζήλας]] (H., Phot., Choerob., Hdn.; s. Lagercrantz IF 25, 363ff.). Diff. Solmsen and Lagercrantz, s. Kretschmer Glotta 4, 351ff. (rejecting). Not better Pisani Stud. itfilcl. N.S. 11, 224f. (from Thrac. <b class="b3">&#42;ΣιλϜανος</b> = Lat. [[Silvānus]]); Grošelj Živa Ant. 1, 127 f. ("the hairy"; to [[σιλλοί]] [cod. <b class="b3">-έα</b>] [[τρίχωμα]] H.). -- On the formation also Detschew KZ 63, 229; on the meaning also Brommer Phil. 94, 222ff. -- Furnée 234 n. 27 gives more instances of [[σ]]\/[[ζ]].