κεραυνός: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[thunderbolt]], [[lightning]] (Il.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">τερπι-κέραυνος</b> (s. v.), <b class="b3">ἐγχει-κέραυνος</b> [[who has the thunderbolt as spear]] (Pi.; after <b class="b3">ἐγχει-βρόμος</b> [[who thunders with the spear]]), also <b class="b3">κεραυνο-εγχής</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (B.).<br />Derivatives: [[κεραύνιος]] [[belonging to the thunderbolt]], also <b class="b2">struck by a th., hurling the th.</b> (trag.), also [[κεραυναῖος]] (AP 7, 49; Steph. <b class="b3">-ειος</b>); [[κεραύνιον]] name of a mushroom [[Tuber aestivum]] (Thphr., Gal.), as protecting against the th. or arisen from a th.; thus [[κεραυνία]] = <b class="b3">ἀείζῳον μικρόν</b> (Ps.-Dsc.), cf. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 79f.; also name of a stone like [[κεραυνίας]], <b class="b3">-νίτης</b> (PHolm., Clem.; Redard Les noms grecs en <b class="b3">-της</b> 55). Denomin. verb [[κεραυνόομαι]], <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">be struck by a th.</b>, resp. <b class="b2">slay with a th.</b> (Hes.); [[κεραύνωσις]] [[thunderstroke]] (Str., Plu.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [578] <b class="b2">*ḱerh₂-</b> [[shatter]], [[smash]]<br />Etymology: Thematic transformation of an [[r-n-]]noun <b class="b3">*κερα-Ϝαρ</b>, <b class="b3">κερα-υν-</b> [[shattering]] from a lost verb [[shatter]], which was supplanted by [[κεραΐζω]] (s. v.); on the formation s. [[ἐλαύνω]] and Schwyzer 521. - (Not here Skt. [[śáru-]] [[arrow]] and Germ., e. g. Goth. [[haírus]] [[sword]] (Bq).