λαπαρός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[weak]], [[slack]], [[hollow]] (Hp., Arist.).<br />Derivatives: [[λαπαρότης]] [[weakness]] (Hp.); [[λαπάρη]] f. [[the weak flanks]], pl. <b class="b2">the flank(s)</b> (Il.). - Beside it [[λαπἁσσω]], <b class="b3">-ττω</b>, (<b class="b3">-ζω</b> Ath., H.), aor. [[λαπάξαι]], fut. [[λαπάξω]] <b class="b2">weaken, make hollow, sunken, void</b> (Hp.), also [[destroy]] (A.); from there [[λάπαξις]] [[evacuation]] (Arist., medic.), <b class="b3">λαπαγμῶν ἐκκενώσεων</b> H., [[λαπακτικός]] [[evacuating]] (medic.). - On [[λάπαθον]] [[pitfall]] s. v. With [[λαπαρός]] cf. [[λαγαρός]], [[χαλαρός]], <b class="b3">πλα-δαρός</b> etc. with the same suffix and the same meaning (Chantraine Form. 227); a basic primary verb may have been retained in <b class="b3">ἔλαψα διέφθειρα</b>. [[Κύπριοι]] H. Lengthened from there (after [[μαλάττω]]? cf. <b class="b3">λαπάττων μαλάττων</b>, <b class="b3">λαγαρὸν ποιῶν</b> H.) [[λαπάσσω]], [[λαπάττω]]; the usual meaning [[evacuate]] arose in the language of the medics from [[weaken]], [[make hollow]], [[sunken]], referred to the stomach and the bowels. In the sense of [[destroy]] [[λαπάξειν]], <b class="b3">-ξαι</b> agree with [[ἀλαπάζω]], of which the relation to [[λαπάσσω]], <b class="b3">-ζω</b> has not been explained; perhaps a cross with another word (Ruijgh L'élém. achéen 74f.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Outside cognates fail; cf. W.-Hofmann s. [[lepidus]] (cf. on [[λέπω]], [[λεπτός]]); Alb. [[laps]] [[tired]]? (Jokl WienAkSb. 168 : 1, 48; rejected in WP. 1, 92, Pok. 33).