σμίλη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[knife for cutting]] or [[carving]], <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Th.</span>779</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>353a</span>, <span class="bibl">Babr.98.13</span>; [[graving tool]], [[sculptor's chisel]], AP7.429 (Alc.); [[surgeon's knife]] or [[lancet]] (cf. [[φλεβοτόμος]]), <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Ind.</span>29</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.4.181</span>; [[shoemaker's knife]], Pl.<span class="title">Alc.</span>1.129c, <span class="bibl">Herod.7.119</span>; <b class="b2">vinedresser's pruning-knife</b>, <span class="bibl">Gp.5.35.1</span> (but v. <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">R.</span>353a</span>); [[penknife]], AP6.67 (Jul.), etc.: cf. [[σμῖλα]].</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[knife]], [[woodcarving knife]], [[scalpel]], [[chisel]], instrument for artisan, physicians, image-sculptor etc. (in. Att.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-α</b> AP; <b class="b3">-ή</b> Hdn. Gr.<br />Compounds: As 1st element in <b class="b3">σμιλι-γλύφοι</b> ([[τέχναι]]) [[working with chisels]], [[sculptural]] (Epigr. Galatia); on the compositional <b class="b3">-ι</b> Schwyzer 448, which is rightly rejected by Chantr.<br />Derivatives: 1. Dimin. <b class="b3">σμιλ-ίον</b> n. with <b class="b3">-ιωτός</b>, <b class="b3">-άριον</b> n. (late medic.); 2. <b class="b3">-ινος</b> [[acting as a knife]] (late medic.); 3. <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, <b class="b3">δια-σμιλεύω</b> [[to smooth with a chisel]], [[to plane]] (late) with <b class="b3">σμίλ-ευμα</b> n. [[chipping]] (Ar.), <b class="b3">-ευτός</b> (AP), <b class="b3">-ευσις</b>, <b class="b3">-εία</b> f. (Hdn. Epim.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]; PGX [probably a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Instrument name in <b class="b3">-λη</b> like [[μήλη]], [[χηλή]], [[τρώγλη]] a. o; but this is rather doubtful, cf. Form. 240. No directe connection outside Greek. A basic primary verb is also supposed for the Germ. word for [[carpenter]], [[smith]] in OWNo. [[smið]], OE [[smiÞ]] (> NEng. [[smith]]), OHG. [[smid]], PGm. <b class="b2">*smiÞu-</b>, <b class="b2">*smiðu-</b>, IE. <b class="b2">*smi-tu</b>. Beside it with transition in th <b class="b2">n-</b>stems the Goth. comp. <b class="b2">aiza-smiÞa</b> <b class="b2">ore-smiih, χαλκεύς</b>. The length in [[σμίλη]] is not based on a longdiphthongal <b class="b2">*smēi-</b> : <b class="b2">*smī-</b>, but may have been introduced secondarily after the model of the nouns in <b class="b3">-ιλη</b>, <b class="b3">-ιλο-</b>. So the etymology remains doubtful; the word may be Pr-Greek. -- WP. 2, 686 and Pok. 968 (after Persson Stud. 119, Brugmann IF 6, 93) w. lit. and further, hypothetical combinations. Cf. [[σμινύη]], [[σμίνθος]]; also [[μικρός]].