σάπφειρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(proparox.), ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[lapis lazuli]], of which two chief kinds, [[κυανῆ]] and [[χρυσῆ]], are mentioned by <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Lap.</span>23</span>,<span class="bibl">37</span>, <span class="bibl">D.P.1105</span>; cf. <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>24.10</span>, al., <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>3.7.5</span>, <b class="b2">Peripl. M.Rubr</b>.<span class="bibl">39</span>. (Cf. Hebr. <b class="b2">sappīr</b>, perhaps not Semitic.)</span>

|strgr=of [[Hebrew]] [[origin]] (סַפִּיר); a "sapphire" or lapis-lazuli [[gem]]: sapphire.

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[lazurite]], "sapphire" (Thphr., LXX etc.; on the meaning Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 212).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">σαπφείρ-ιον</b> (<b class="b3">-ππ-</b>) n. <b class="b2">colouring made of σ.</b> (pap.), <b class="b3">-ινος</b> <b class="b2">made of σ.</b> (pap., Philostr. a.o.).<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Semit.?<br />Etymology: Semit. LW [loanword]; cf. Hebr. [[sappīr]]. Further connection with OInd. (lex.) <b class="b2">śani-priya-</b> n. name of a dark stone (since A. Müller BB 1, 281) seems quite doubtful. However, in Semit. the word is rather a loanword (Masson, Emprunts sémit. 66 n. 2). --The word looks Pre-Greek (<b class="b3">-πφ-</b>, <b class="b3">-ειρ-ος</b>). Through Lat. sapphirus the word came in the European languages, Eng. sapphire etc.