πόρνη: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[prostitute]], [[whore]] (IA.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. [[πορνοβοσκός]] m. [[procurer]] with [[πορνέω]], [[πορνία]], [[πορνεῖον]] (Herod., Att.; Chantraine Études 17); [[πορνολύτας]] m. (inscr. Tarentum), s. Parlangèli Glotta 40, 50.<br />Derivatives: 1. Dimin. [[πορνίδιον]] n. (com.); 2. [[πορνικός]] [[belonging to harlots]] (Aesch., LXX); 3. [[πορνεῖον]] n. [[brothel]] (Ar., Antipho), 4. [[πορνοσύνη]] f. [[prostitution]] (Man.; Wyss 71); 5. [[πορνεύομαι]], [[πορνεύω]], also m. [[καταπορνεύω]], [[ἐκπορνεύω]] [[to live like a harlot]], to [[let oneself be used for lewdness]]; to [[prostitute]], also metaph. to [[practice idolatry]] (NT), with [[πορνεία]], [[πόρνευσις]], [[πόρνευμα]], [[πορνεύτρια]] (IA.). From [[πόρνη]] also [[πόρνος]] m. [[lover-boy]], [[lover]] (Att., LXX, NT).<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]<br />Etymology: Formation like [[ποινή]], [[φερνή]], [[τόρνος]] a.o. (Chantraine Form. 192 f.), so verbal noun of [[πέρνημι]] (note the common [[ν-]]suffix). Prob. prop. "export, sale". After Schwyzer 489 a. 362 however subst. adj. "who is sold in(to) a foreign (land) " (with <b class="b3">-ορ-</b> as zero grade?). In any case a euphemistic expression (Benveniste Sprache 1, 118). -- So from <b class="b2">*porh₂-n-</b>, with loss of the laryngeal after <b class="b2">-o-</b>.