ἐρῑνεός

ἐρῑνεός

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `wild fig-tree, Ficus caprificus' (Il., Hes., Arist.), (opposite συκῆ; cf. Strömberg Theophrastea 166 n. 1).

Other forms: ἐρινός m. (Stratt., Theoc., Delos etc.; cf. ἀδελφεός : -φός), Att. also ἐρινεώς (Delos, Com.; after other tree-names in -εώς; Wackernagel Akzent 32 n. 1 = Kl. Schr. 2, 1101 n. 1)

Dialectal forms: Myc. erinowo, woto.

Derivatives: ἐρινεόν, -νόν `wild fig' (Com., Arist., Thphr.); to ἐριν(ε)ός : -ν(ε)όν Wackernagel Syntax 2, 17, Schwyzer-Debrunner 30; ἐρινάς f. = ἐρινεός (Nic.; like κοτινάς a. o.; Chantraine Formation 353); adjective ἐρίνεος, -νοῦς `belonging to a fig-tree' (Epich., E.), ἐρινεώδης `full of fig-trees' (Str.); denomin. verb ἐρινάζω `caprificate (?, see LSJ) with ἐρινασμός (Thphr.); hang branches of wild fig near the cultivated one so that insects will bring over pollen(s) (see Thpr. s.v.ψήν; Perpillou RPh 71 (1997) 160, who adds: "le figuier sauvage serait alors le figuier-bouc, fécondateur considéré le mâpe de l'espèce" which is hardly understandable as an etymol.)

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Uncertain. Recalling Messen. (Paus. 4, 20, 2) τράγος = ἐρινεός and Lat. caprifīcus, Prellwitz BB 22, 284f. wants to start from an old word for `he-goat', which is found (also) in ἔριφος, s. v. Acc. to Chantraine Formation 203 and Schwyzer 491 however Pre-Greek (who compares κότινος `wild olive'; cf. also ὄλυνθος `wild fig').

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