κορυφή: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[top]], [[skull]], also metph. (Il.).<br />Other forms: Dor. <b class="b3">-φά</b><br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">κορυφα-γενής</b> [[head born]], prop. of Athena, metaph. (Pythag. in Plu. 2, 381f.), <b class="b3">δι-κόρυφος</b> [[with two summits]] (E., Arist.).<br />Derivatives: [[κορυφαῖος]] m. <b class="b2">the firste, head-, choirleader</b> (IA.), second. adj. [[at the head]] (Plu., Hdn.), [[κορυφαιότης]] [[leadership]] (Corp. Herm.); [[κορυφαῖον]] <b class="b2">the upper part of a hunting-net</b>, <b class="b3">-φαία</b> [[the head part of a bridle]] (X., Poll.). - [[κορυφώδης]] [[with summits]] (Hp.). - [[κορυφάς]] f. [[edge of the navel]] (Hp. ap. Gal.); <b class="b3">-φίς</b>, <b class="b3">-φών</b> = [[κορυφή]] (Gloss.), [[κόρυφος]] m. = [[κορυφή]] (Epid.), = <b class="b3">κόρυμβος γυναικεῖος</b> H. - [[κορύφαινα]] f. name of a fish, [[ἵππουρις]] (Dorio ap. Ath.); on the motive Strömberg Fischnamen 59, on the suffix ibd. 137; [[κορύφια]] pl. kind of molluscs (Xenokr. ap. Orib.). - [[κορυφιστήρ]] = [[κορυφαῖον]] (Poll.), also [[forehead-band]] (sch.); cf. [[βραχιονιστήρ]] (Chantraine Formation 328), <b class="b3">-ιστής</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (H.). - Denomin. verbs: 1. [[κορυφόομαι]] [[rise up high]] (Il.), [[count together]] (hell.), <b class="b3">-όω</b> [[bring to the top]] (medic.), with [[κορύφωμα]] [[summum]] (Ath. Mech.), <b class="b3">-ωσις</b> [[top of a pyramide]] (Nicom.). - 2. [[κορύπτω]] <b class="b2">butt with the skull (horns)</b> (Theoc.; on the formation Schwyzer 705) with [[κορυπτίλος]] [[butting]] (Theoc.); after [[τροχίλος]], [[σποργίλος]] (Chantraine Formation 249), prob. hypocoristisc; also [[κορύπτης]], <b class="b3">-τόλης</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (EM, H.); <b class="b3">ἐκορυπτίας ἐγαυρίας</b> H.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Formation with <b class="b3">φ-</b>suffix (Schwyzer 495, Chantraine 264), from an <b class="b3">υ-</b>stem (but the word is non-IE!), which some see in [[κόρυς]]; the meaning speaks against this deriv. - Wrong combinations in Bezzenberger-Fick BB 6, 237 (s. Bq) and Persson Beitr. 1, 179 (s. WP. 1, 406). - Since long recognized as Pre-Greek, <b class="b3">κορυφ-</b>, with prenasalization <b class="b3">κορυμβ-</b>.<br />See also: - S. also [[κόρυμβος]].