κῆτος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=-εος<br />Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">big sea-animal, sea-monster</b> (Il.), [[whale]] (Arist.); also name of a constellation (Arat.; Scherer Gestirnnamen 187).<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. [[κητόδορπος]] ([[συμφορά]]) <b class="b2">giving the κητεα their evening-meal</b> (Lyc.); [[μεγακήτης]] <b class="b2">with big κήτεα</b> (Hom.), adjunct of [[πόντος]], also of [[δελφίς]] = <b class="b2">(being) a big κῆτος</b>, from there of [[ναῦς]] (cf. Sommer Nominalkomp. 184f.), [[βαθυκήτης]] ([[πόντος]]) <b class="b2">having κήτεα in the deep</b> (Thgn. 175), [[πολυκήτης]] <b class="b2">with many κήτεα</b> (Theoc. 17, 98).<br />Derivatives: [[κήτειος]] <b class="b2">belonging to the κῆτος</b> (Mosch., Nonn.), [[κητώδης]] <b class="b2">belonging to the whale (species)</b> (Arist.); [[κητεία]] f. <b class="b2">catching of κήτεα (tunnies)</b> (Str., Ath., Ael.; after [[ἁλιεία]]); [[κήτημα]] [[salted]] tunnies (Diph. Siph. ap. Ath. 3, 121b; uncertain), <b class="b3">κητήνη πλοῖον μέγα ὡς κῆτος</b> H. (after [[ἀπήνη]]?; cf. also Chantraine Étrennes Benveniste 9); [[κητόομαι]] <b class="b2">become a κῆτος</b> (Ael.). See [[κητώεσσαν]].<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. Wrong IE. etymologies noted in Bq and WP. 1, 384 (s. also Bechtel Lex. s. v.). Prob. a Pre-Greek word.