κασσίτερος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[tin]] (Il.)<br />Other forms: Att. [[καττίτερος]]<br />Compounds: as 1. member in <b class="b3">κασσιτερο-ποιός</b> [[tinner]] (Ptol.).<br />Derivatives: [[κασσιτέρινος]] (<b class="b3">καττι-</b>) [[of tin]] (Att. inscr., Arist.); <b class="b3">Κασσιτερίδες νῆσοι</b> "the tin-islands", prob. SW. of Britain (Hdt. 3, 115, Str.); [[κασσιτερᾶς]] m. [[tinner]] (pap.); [[κασσιτερόω]] [[tin]] (Dsc.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Origin unknown. One has supposed Elamitie origin, from <b class="b2">*kassi-ti-ra</b> "coming from the land of the Kassi (i. e. Kossäer)" (from where [[Κασσίτιρα]] island in the Indian Ocean [Dion. ap. St. Byz.]?), but also called Celtic names like [[Cassi-velaunus]] , with the <b class="b3">Κασσιτερίδες νῆσοι</b> giving their name to the metall (cf. e. g. [[Κύπρος]]: [[copper]]) or v.v.. - Eberts Reallexikon 6, 299, Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 699f.; lit. in W.-Hofmann s. [[cassiterum]] (plus Nachträge); Kretschmer Glotta 27, 36; cf. Bq. - Gr. [[κασσίτερος]] was spread widely: Lat. [[cassiterum]] (after [[ferrum]], [[aurum]] a. o.), OCS [[kositerъ]], Skt. [[kastīram]], Arab. [[qazdir]] etc. The group [[σσ]] \/ [[ττ]] however is typically Pre-Greek, so the word will have come from Greece or Anatolia. Cf. the word for [[lead]], [[μόλυβδος]].