θεωρός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">spectator, envoy to a feast, envoy to an oracle</b> (IA, posthom.), also name of an official who keeps survey (Mantinea, Thasos).<br />Other forms: a loan adapted to the local dialect Dor. etc. [[θεαρός]], Arc. also [[θεαορός]]; Ion. also [[θεορός]] (Paros), [[θευρός]] (Thasos)<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">θεαρο-δόκος</b> <b class="b2">who receives the θ.</b>, with <b class="b3">-δοκέω</b>, <b class="b3">-δοκία</b> (inscr.).<br />Derivatives: 1. [[θεωρίς]] (sc. [[ναῦς]]) f. <b class="b2">ship of the θ.</b> (IA); 2. [[Θεάριος]] surn. of Apollon as oracle-god (Troizen), [[θεάριον]] <b class="b2">meeting place of the θ.</b> (Pi.); 3. [[θεωρικός]] [[destined for the spectators]], <b class="b3">τὸ θ</b>. [[contrbution of the spectator]] (Att.). 4. [[θεωρία]], <b class="b3">-ίη</b>, [[θεαρία]], Boeot. [[θιαωρία]] (hybrid form) <b class="b2">looking on, looking at a feast, embassy to a feast</b>. 5. [[θεωροσύνη]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Man.). 6. denomin. verb [[θεωρέω]] <b class="b2">be θεωρός, look at, observe</b> (IA) with [[θεωρητικός]] [[contemplative]], [[speculative]], [[theoretical]] (Arist.; [[θεωρητής]] Phld.), [[θεώρημα]] (Att., Arist.), <b class="b3">-ησις</b> (Pl.; Röttger Plat. Subst. 17f.), <b class="b3">-ητήριον</b> a. o. On [[Θεάριστος]] Zucker, Maia 11 (1959) 162.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1164] <b class="b2">*uer-</b> observe, look at<br />Etymology: Prop. "who looks at a show", <b class="b3">*θεα-(Ϝ)ορός</b>, <b class="b3">*θεη-(Ϝ)ορός</b> > <b class="b3">θε(ε)ωρός</b>; also [[θεορός]] > [[θευρός]], prob. after <b class="b3">-ορος</b> ([[ἔφορος]]). Slightly diff. Schwyzer 248; also Leumann Hom. Wörter 223 n. 2, Buck Studies presented to D. M. Robinson 2, 443f., Szemerényi Glotta 33, 250 n. 2. - Quite diff. on [[θεωρός]] (to [[θεός]]) Koller Glotta 36, 273ff. Objections in DELG.