ξυρόν: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[razor]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>241</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>65</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span>219</span>, <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Al.</span>411</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Art.</span>29</span>, etc.: [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">ἐπὶ ξυροῦ ἵσταται ἀκμῆς... ὄλεθρος ἠὲ βιῶναι</b> death or life is balanced on a [[razor's]] edge, <span class="bibl">Il.10.173</span>: freq. in later authors, to express a delicately balanced like lihood of failure or success, ἀκμᾶς ἑστακυῖαν ἐπὶ ξυροῦ Ἑλλάδα <span class="bibl">Simon.97</span>; ἐπὶ ξ. γὰρ ἀκμῆς ἔχεται ἡμῖν τὰ πρήγματα <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.11</span>; κίνδυνος ἐπὶ ξ. ἵσταται ἀκμῆς <span class="bibl">Thgn.557</span>; βεβὼς… ἐπὶ ξ. τύχης <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>996</span>; <b class="b3">ἔβητ' ἐπὶ ξ</b>.; <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>630</span>; ἐπὶ ξ. εἶναι <span class="bibl">Theoc.22.6</span>; ἐπὶ ξ. ἑστηκέναι <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">JTr.</span>3</span>.</span><br /><span class="bld">ξῠρόν·</span> [[τομόν]], [[ἰσχνόν]], [[ὀξύ]], Hsch.

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n. (<b class="b3">-ός</b> m.)<br />Meaning: [[razor]] (K 173).<br />Compounds: Rarely as 1. member, e.g. <b class="b3">ξυρο-δόκη</b> f. [[razor-case]] (Ar.); as 2. member with metr. conditioned enlargement in <b class="b3">ὑπο-ξύριος</b> (AP 6, 307; verse-end), prop. "what is under the [[ξ]].", i.e. [[on what a razor is wheted]]. Also as backformation in <b class="b3">ὑπό-ξυρος</b> <b class="b2">a little (or below) shaved off</b>, of the nose of an eagle etc. (Hp.), <b class="b3">ἀπό-ξυρος</b> [[shaved off]], [[steep]], of a rock (Peripl. M. Rubr., Luc.), <b class="b3">κατά-ξυρος</b> adjunct of [[θυρίδες]] ('loop-holes'; Ph. Bel.), of <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, <b class="b3">κατα-ξυράω</b>, <b class="b3">-έω</b> (s.b.).<br />Derivatives: 1. Deminut.: <b class="b3">ξύρ-ιον</b> (hell.), <b class="b3">-άφιον</b> (Gal., Sch.). 2. [[ξυρίας]] m. [[provided with a tonsure]], [[clean-shaven man]] (Poll., H.). 3. [[ξυρίς]], <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[ξιρίς]]. 4. Denominative verbs: a. [[ξυρέω]] (Hdt., τrag. a. Att.), [[ξυράω]], <b class="b3">-άομαι</b> (Hdt., Plu.), [[ξύρω]]. <b class="b3">-ομαι</b>, aor. [[ξῦραι]], <b class="b3">-ασθαι</b> (Hp., hell.), also with prefix, e.g. <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπο-</b>, <b class="b3">κατα-</b>, [[shave clean]] with [[ξύρησις]] f. [[shaving]] (LXX), <b class="b3">-ήσιμος</b> [[good for shaving]] (Ael. Dion.), [[ξυρησμός]] m. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Hdn.), [[ξυρητής]] m. [[barber]] (pap.); b. [[ξυρίζω]] = <b class="b3">-έω</b> (Sch.) with [[ξύρισμα]] n. [[shaving]] (Tz.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [586] <b class="b2">*ksuro-</b> [[razor]]<br />Etymology: Old inherited word identical with Skt. <b class="b2">kṣurá-</b> m. [[razor]], IE <b class="b2">*ksuró-</b> (on the original meaning Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 61 w. lit.). Because of the limited spread of the word Specht KZ 66, 9ff. and Lexis 3, 70 wants to see in <b class="b2">kṣurá-</b> = [[ξυρόν]] a common LW [loanword] from an unknown south-eastern source. Wellargued objections by Thieme Die Heimat d. idg. Gemeinspr. 49 f., Fraenkel Glotta 32, 24 f. w. n. 3, Dehò Ist. Lomb. 91, 349 f. -- For further connections s. [[ξύω]].