κτέρας: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n. (only nom.)<br />Meaning: [[gift]] (K 216, Ω 235, A. R. 4, 1550), usually pl. [[κτέρεα]], <b class="b3">-έων</b> [[gifts for the dead]], [[offer]] (Il.)<br />Other forms: on <b class="b3">-ας</b> : <b class="b3">-εα</b> Schwyzer 515, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 210)<br />Compounds: As 2. member in <b class="b3">ἀ-κτερής</b> [[unburied]] (Orac. Sibyll., H.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κτερε-ΐζω</b> (<b class="b3">-ίξω</b>, <b class="b3">-ίξαι</b>), also with <b class="b3">ἐν-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">συν-</b>, (Il.) and <b class="b3">κτερ-ίζω</b> (<b class="b3">-ιω</b>, <b class="b3">-ίσαι</b>; Il.) <b class="b2">bring gifts for the dead, bury ceremoniously</b> (Schwyzer 735, Debrunner IF 40, 107ff., Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 83) with [[κτερίσματα]] pl. = [[κτέρεα]] (S., E.), <b class="b3">-ισταί</b> H. (= [[ταφῆες]]), <b class="b3">ἀ-κτέριστος</b> (S., Lyc.),<b class="b3">-έϊστος</b> (AP). On <b class="b3">κτέρεα κτερεΐζειν</b> Mylonas AmJArch. 52, 56ff.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Here also <b class="b3">κτέρες νεκροί</b> H., prob. constructed backformation (Solmsen IF 3, 98; against this Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 68); further prob. <b class="b3">Πολύ-κτωρ</b> (Hom.; after it <b class="b3">Γανύ-κτωρ</b> Plu., Paus.) as "much-spender" (Fraenkel l.c. with Solmsen; diff. [to [[κτάομαι]]] Schulze Kl. Schr. 79). Quite uncertain [[διάκτορος]], s. v. No etymology; wrong ideas in Bq. S. also Arena, Ist. Lomb. 98 (1964) 3-32.