ἐλλύτας
αἱ μέν ἀποφάσεις ἐπί τῶν θείων ἀληθεῖς, αἱ δέ καταφάσεις ἀνάρμοστοι τῇ κρυφιότητι τῶν ἀποῤῥήτων → as concerns the things of the gods, negative pronouncements are true, but positive ones are inadequate to their hidden character
Spanish (DGE)
εἰλύτας, -α, ὁ
• Alolema(s): ἐλύτης Hdn.Gr.1.77.14, Theognost.Can.p.44.22; ἐλλύτας IMaff.31.5.35 (Tera III a.C.); ἐλλύτης Hsch.
cierta torta de trigo y queso ofrendada a diversas divinidades, a Trofonio antes de consultar el oráculo SEG 44.414.4 (Lebadea IV a.C.), θυέτω ... ταῖς Mούσαις ... ἐλλύτας ἐκ πυρῶν χοινίκων πέντε IMaff.l.c., cf. 6.4, dud. en SEG 31.1554.1 (Chipre II/III d.C.), ἐ.· πλακοῦς τις Hsch.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: name of something baked, kind of cake, Kringel, Brezel (Thera)
Other forms: ἐλλυτίς (for -της?) πλακοῦς τις H., εἰλύτας acc. pl. (Boeotia), ἐλύτης (gramm.)
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]
Etymology: Connected with εἰλύω (s. v.), either from the verbal stem (Ϝ)ελυ- or from the present-stem Ϝελνυ- or the perfect stem ϜεϜλυ-. Other attempts to accomodate the different forms by Solmsen Unt. 240. Also Bechtel Dial. 1, 304. The connection with εἰλύω may well be wrong; the interchange λ/λλ rather points to a Pre-Greek word; so the word will have started with *ely-
Frisk Etymology German
ἐλλύτας: (Thera),
{ellútas}
Forms: ἐλλυτίς (für -της?)· πλακοῦς τις H., εἰλύτας Akk. pl. (Böotien), ἐλύτης (Gramm.)
Meaning: Ben. eines Backwerks, Kringel, Brezel o. ä.
Etymology : Zu εἰλύω (s. d.), u. z. entweder vom Verbalstamm (ϝ)ελυ- oder vom Präsensstamm ϝελνυ- oder Perfektstamm ϝεϝλυ- zu (ϝ)ελλυ-, (ϝ)ειλυ-. Anderer Versuch, mit den wechselnden Formen zurechtzukommen, bei Solmsen Unt. 240. S. noch Bechtel Dial. 1, 304.
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