νόσφι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=before a vowel or metri gr. νόσφιν, though ι may also be elided, as <span class="bibl">Il.20.7</span>. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> Adv. of [[place]], [[aloof]], [[apart]], [[aside]] (cf. [[ἀπονόσφι]]), <b class="b3">νόσφιν ἀειράσας</b> after carrying the corpse [[aside]], <span class="bibl">Il.24.583</span>; <b class="b3">ν. ἰδών</b> having looked [[aside]], <span class="bibl">Od.17.304</span>; νόσφιν ἀπό… [[aloof from]], <span class="bibl">Il.5.322</span>, <span class="bibl">15.244</span>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>57</span>; ν. ἄτερ… <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Sc.</span> 15</span>; ν. ἤ… [[besides]], [[except]], <span class="bibl">Theoc. 25.197</span>; ν. μέν… ν. δέ [[separately]], <span class="bibl">Coluth.105</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[aside]], [[secretly]], ν. ἀκούων <span class="bibl">Il.17.408</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> as [[preposition]], c. gen., [[aloof]] or [[away from]], [[far from]], <b class="b3">ν. πολέμοιο, φίλων</b>, <span class="bibl">6.443</span>, <span class="bibl">14.256</span>; ν. πόληος <span class="bibl">Od.16.383</span>, etc.; ν. νόσων πενίας τε <span class="bibl">B.1.60</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[without]], [[apart from]], [[unaided by]], mostly of persons, ν. δεσποίνης <span class="bibl">Od.14.9</span>; ν. Ἀχαιῶν <span class="bibl">Il.5.803</span>; οὔτε κακὸς ν. δαίμονος οὔτ' ἀγαθός <span class="bibl">Thgn.166</span>; ν. ἡγητῶν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>239</span>; of things, ν. ἄτερ τε κακῶν καὶ ἄτερ… πόνοιο <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>91</span>; <b class="b3">ν. ἄτερ τε πόνων καὶ ὀϊζύος</b> ib.<span class="bibl">113</span>; οὔτ' εἰπεῖν ἐστί τι ν. πόθων <span class="title">AP</span>12.18 (Alph.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> of mind or disposition, <b class="b3">τοί κεν Ἀχαιῶν ν. βουλεύωσ'</b> [[apart from]], i.e. [[differently from]], the (rest of the) Achaeans, <span class="bibl">Il.2.347</span>; <b class="b3">ν. Δήμητρος</b> [[without]] her [[knowledge and consent]], h.Cer.4; <b class="b3">ν. ἐμεῖο</b> ib.72. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[beside]], [[except]], ν. Ποσειδάωνος <span class="bibl">Od.1.20</span>; νόσφ' Ὠκεανοῖο <span class="bibl">Il.20.7</span>; ν. Νότου <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span> 870</span>.—Ep. and Lyr. word, once in A., [[l.c.]], never in S. or E.</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adv. a. prep.<br />Meaning: [[aside]], [[far (from)]], [[without]] (ep. Il.; on the use Schwyzer-Debrunner 540).<br />Derivatives: [[νοσφίδιος]] [[situated aside]], [[secretly]] (Hes. Fr. 187; Chantraine Form. 39, Schwyzer 467), [[νοσφιδόν]] adv. [[secretly]] (Eust.); [[νοσφίζομαι]] (Β 81 = Ω 222), <b class="b3">νοσφίσ(σ)ασθαι</b>, [[νοσφισθῆναι]] (Od.), fut. <b class="b3">νοσφίσ(σ)ομαι</b> (A. R.), also act. [[νοσφίζω]] (h. Cer., Pi.), rarely w. prefix, esp. <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, [[turn off]], [[remove (oneself)]], act. [[turn off]], [[remove]]; [[νόσφισμα]] n. [[embezzlement]] (pap.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: No etymology. After Curtius (with Pauli) to [[νῶτον]] [[back]] (s.v.); agreeing Schulze KZ 29, 263 n. 1 (= Kl. Schr. 375 n. 2) and Schwyzer 362, who posits orig. <b class="b3">*νοτ-σ-φι</b>. Persson IF 2, 204 compares Lith. <b class="b2">nuõ</b> [[away from]], Latv. <b class="b2">nùo</b>, which must probably be explained diff., s. Fraenkel s.v., also WP. 1, 59 and Pok. 40.