κέπφος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">name of an unknown water-bird, mostly, but without sufficient ground, identified with the stormy petrel, Thalassidroma pelagica (Arist., Thphr., Lyc., Nic.); also metaph. of a simple man, which can be easily deceived</b> (Ar., Call.).<br />Derivatives: [[κεπφόομαι]] [[be easily deceived]], [[be simple]] (LXX, Cic.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: The word has perhaps an expressive-popular gemination, but is further unknown. A by-form is <b class="b3">κεμπός κοῦφος</b>, <b class="b3">ἐλαφρὸς ἄνθρωπος</b> H. (Grošelj Živa Ant. 7, 43; cf. the description of the [[κέπφος]] in H.: <b class="b3">εἶδος ὀρνέου κουφοτάτου κτλ</b>.). - Solmsen IF 30, 7 n. 1 compared Lat. [[hebes]], but the birds name is no coubt primary. On the facts Thompson Birds s. v. - The prenasalized form shows that the word is Pre-Greek. Cf. on [[κάμπος]].