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|etymtx=<b class="b3">-ιος</b>, <b class="b3">-εως</b> (<b class="b3">-εος</b>)<br />Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[dust]], [[ashes]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: dat. <b class="b3">-ι</b>, <b class="b3">-ει</b><br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">κονι-ορ-τός</b> m. [[cloud of dust]] (IA.), from <b class="b3">ὄρ-νυμι</b> with <b class="b3">το-</b> (diff. Pisani Ist. Lomb. 77, 558), NGr. [[κορνιαχτός]] (Hatzidakis Glotta 3, 70ff.); in the compp. <b class="b3">κονί-σαλος</b> m. (<b class="b3">κονίσ-σαλος</b>, cf. below) [[cloud of dust]] (Il.), <b class="b2">the dust with oil- and sweat of a wrestler</b> (Gal.), also name of a priapus-like demon (com., inscr.) and a lascivious dance (H.; cf. v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 161 a. 279); in the last meaning by Fick a. o. (s. Scheller Oxytonierung 50 n. 2) considered as an independent word; <b class="b3">κονί-ποδες</b> m. pl. [[kind of shoes]] (Ar. Ek. 848, Poll.), name of the slaves in Epid. (Plu.; French parallels in Niedermann KZ 45, 182).<br />Derivatives: Denomin. verb [[κονίω]], <b class="b3">-ίομαι</b>, fut. [[κονίσω]], hell. [[κονιοῦμαι]], aor. [[κονῖσαι]] ([[κονίσσαι]]), perf. midd. <b class="b3">κεκόνι(σ)μαι</b>, also with <b class="b3">ἐν-</b>, <b class="b3">δια-</b> a. o., [[cover with dust]], [[oneself with sand]] (Il.; on the formation below); [[κόνιμα]] (Delphi IIIa), <b class="b3">-ισμα</b> (Cythera) [[dust of the wrestlers place]], [[κόνισις]] <b class="b2">make dust, training at the wrestlers place</b> (Arist.), [[ἐνκονιστάς]] m. [[gymnasta]] (Thebes; Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 174f.), [[κονίστρα]] (Arist.), [[κονιστήριον]] (Pergam. IIa ) [[wrestlers place]], [[κονιστικός]] [[welter in the dust]] (Arist.). Enlarged form <b class="b3">κονίζεσθαι κυλίεσθαι</b>, [[φθείρεσθαι]], [[κονιορτοῦσθαι]] H. (here also [[κονιοῦμαι]]?). Further derivv.: [[κόνιος]] [[dusty]] (Pi.), [[creating dust]] (Paus., surn. of Zeus), [[κονιώδης]] [[like ashes]] (Hp.). - [[κονία]], ep. Ion. <b class="b3">-ίη</b>, metr. lengthened <b class="b3">-ίη</b> (<b class="b3">κόννα σποδός</b> H. Aeol.?) [[dust]], [[ashes]], [[sand]] (Hom., Hes. Sc., A., E.), [[alkaline fluid]] (Ar., Pl., Thphr., medic.), [[chalk]], [[whitewash]], [[gypsum]] (LXX, hell.). [[κονιάω]] <b class="b2">smear with chalk </b> (D., Arist.) with [[κονίαμα]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hp., D., hell.), [[κονίασις]] [[whitewash]] (hell. inscr.), [[κονιατήρ]] [[whitewasher]] (Epid. IVa), [[κονιατής]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (inscr., pap.; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 36); [[κονιατός]] [[whitewashed]] (X., Thphr., pap.; Ammann <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 17), [[κονιατικά]] ([[ἔργα]]) [[stucco-works]] (pap., inscr.). Also [[κονιάζομαι]] [[be covered with ashes]] (Gp.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [559] <b class="b2">*konis</b> [[ashes]]<br />Etymology: [[κόνις]] differs from Lat. [[cinis]], <b class="b2">-eris</b> m. (f.) in the o-vocalism ([[e]] : [[o]]); the s-stem seen in [[ciner-is]] and [[cinis-culus]] can also be assumed for <b class="b3">κονίσ-σαλος</b>, <b class="b3">κεκόνισ-μαι</b>, [[κονίω]] < <b class="b3">*κονισ-ι̯ω</b>, <b class="b3">κονί-α</b> < <b class="b3">*κονισ-α</b> (details in Scheller Oxytonierung 49f.). The word was perhaps originally an neutr. <b class="b2">is-(i-</b>?)stem; s. Benveniste Origines 34, Specht Ursprung 298. The basis may hace been a lost verb meaning [[scratch]], [[plane]], [[scour]]; one also compares <b class="b3">-κναίω</b>.