- εἴδομαι
- εἴδομαιGrammatical information: v.Meaning: `seem, appear, give the appearance, resemble' (Il.).Other forms: Aor. εἴσασθαι (ptc. also ἐ-(Ϝ)εισάμενος, Chantr. Gramm. hom. 1, 182).Compounds: δια-είδομαι with fact. fut. δια-είσομαι `make appear' (Θ 535; s. Chantr. 1, 442).Derivatives: εἶδος `species, appearance' εἰδύλλιον `poem, single song', εἰδάλιμος `with beautiful appearance'; εἴδωλον `picture, image', -λάτρης `who reveres idols', εἰδάλλεται φαίνεται H.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1125] *u̯eid- `see'Etymology: Beside (Ϝ)είδομαι and the σ-aorist there is the thematic aorist (Ϝ)ιδεῖν and the perfect (Ϝ)οῖδα, both old (s. v.). There is no equivalent of εἴδομαι; comparable are Celtic and Germanic forms, e. g. OIr. ad-féded `narrabat', Goth. ra-weitan `revenge', both from IE *u̯eid-, but they differ in meaning. εἴδομαι agrees semantically well to εἶδος. It may have been influenced by εἶδος. - The form ἐεισάμενος is found only in the formula (verse init.) τῳ̃ μιν ε. προσέφη; it is therefore probable that an accident led to this unusual form: the formula will have had τῳ̃ δε Ϝε Ϝεισάμενος; see Beekes Larr. 59f. (Wrong RPh. 71 (1997)157.) - Cf. ἰδεῖν, οἶδα, also ἰνδάλλεται.Page in Frisk: 1,451
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