κέπφος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, perhaps<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[stormy petrel]], [[Thalassidroma pelagica]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]'' 593b14, 620a13, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''Sign.''28, Lyc.76, 836, Nic.''Al.''166.<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., [[feather-brained fellow]], Ar.''Pax''1067, ''Pl.''912.

|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-01-1419.png Seite 1419]] ὁ (nach den Alten mit [[κοῦφος]] verwandt), ein Seevogel, procellaria, der sich mit Meerschaum leicht locken u. fangen läßt, Arist. H. A. 9, 35. Dah. ein leichtsinniger, einfältiger, leicht zu berückender Mensch, Gimpel, Ar. Par 1032 Plut. 912; Lycophr. 836. – Bei Hesych. steht auch κεμπός dafür, wie bei Schol. Ar. κέμφος.

|btext=ου (ὁ) :<br />mouette, <i>oiseau ; fig.</i> [[homme simple]], [[sot]], [[niais]].<br />'''Étymologie:''' DELG obscur ; pê [[κοῦφος]].

|elnltext=κέπφος -ου, ὁ (vogel) stormvogel.

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[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]] (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]].