σκῖρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[hard]] (perhaps <b class="b2">chalk) land overgrown with bushes, scrub</b>, Tab.Heracl.1.19; <b class="b3">τῶν ξύλων . . τῶν ἐν τοῖς σ</b>. ib.144; = [[πυρρώδης]] ([[ῥυπώδης]] cj. Mein.) [[γῆ]] acc. to Philet. ap. Hsch.; <b class="b3">σκ[ε]ίρα</b> (leg. [[σκῖρα]]) <b class="b3"> . . χωρία ὕλην ἔχοντα εὐθετοῦσαν εἰς φρύγανα</b>, Hsch.; <b class="b3">σκ[ε]ῖρος· . . ἄλσος καὶ δρυμός</b>, Id. (but opp. [[δρυμός]], <span class="title">Tab.Heracl.</span> ll.cc.); ἠὲ σ. ἔην, νῦν αὖ θέτο τέρματ' Ἀχιλλεύς <span class="bibl">Il.23.332</span>,<span class="bibl">333</span> as shortened into one line by Aristarch. (here = [[ῥίζα, διὰ τὸ ἐσκιάσθαι]] acc. to Sch.T ad loc.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[hardened swelling]] or [[tumour]], [[induration]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>1.18</span> (<b class="b3">τὸν σκῖρον [σκίρρον</b> codd.] σκῦρον ὀνομάζει Erot. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[σκυρωθῶσι]]), <span class="bibl">Sor.2.7</span> ([[σκύρου]] cod.), <span class="bibl">9</span> ([[σκύρον]] cod.), <span class="bibl">56</span>, Gal.11.736, <span class="bibl">Aret.<span class="title">CD</span>1.14</span> ([[σκίρρος]] codd.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> σκίρρος,= [[γύψος]], Suid. (cod. A in marg.); also σκίρρα, = [[γῆ λευκή, ὥσπερ γύψος]], Id. (written σκίρα Id.s.v. [[σκίρος]]) <b class="b3">; γῆ σκιρράς</b>, Sch.<span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>921</span>.

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[induration]], [[callus]], [[hard tumour]] (medic.), [[hard]], [[scrubby ground]], [[scrub]] (Tab. Heracl.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">-ρρ-</b>, also <b class="b3">σκῦρ-</b>); [[σκῖρος]] m., <b class="b3">-ον</b> n. [[crust]], [[rind]], [[cheese-rind]], [[herdened dirt]] (com.); also [[hard]], [[white matter]], [[gypsum]] (sch. Ar. V. 921, Suid.), in this meaning also [[σκίρρα]] (Suid.), <b class="b3">γῆ σκιρράς</b> (sch. Ar. V. 921); <b class="b3">γῆ λευκή ὥσπερ γύψος</b> Su.<br />Derivatives: [[σκιρρίτης]] m. [[gypsum-worker]] (Zonar., Redard 36). -- Abstractformation <b class="b3">σκιρρ-ίη</b> f. [[induration]] (Aret.; Scheller 56), <b class="b3">ἀκροσκιρ-ίαι</b> f. pl. [[high scrubby lands]] (Tab. Heracl.); adj. <b class="b3">σκιρ(ρ)-ός</b> [[hard]] (Plu., Them. a. o.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> [[callous]] (Gall., Poll.); verb <b class="b3">-όομαι</b>, also w. <b class="b3">έπι-</b> a. o., [[to harden]], [[to take root]] (Sophr., medic.) with <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> n. [[induration]] (Dsc.). <b class="b3">-ωσις</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Sor., Gal.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained. Cf. [[σκῦρος]]. -- Furnée 387 takes the word a Pre-Greek, which seems quite prob.