ἕρπω

ἕρπω
ἕρπω
Grammatical information: v.
Meaning: `crawl, slink, go on all four', Dor. also `go' in gen. (Il.).
Other forms: Aor. ἑρπύσαι (Att.; cf. ἑρπύζω below), ἕρψαι (LXX), fut. ἕρψω, also ἑρπύσω, Dor. ἑρψῶ,
Compounds: very often with prefix, e. g. ἀν-, εἰσ-, ἐξ-, ἐφ-, προσ-. As 1. member in ἑρπ-άκανθα = ἄκανθος (Ps.-Dsc.).
Derivatives: εΏρπετόν n. `animal that goes, crawls on all fours' as opposed to birds (πετεινά) and men (Ion.-Att., δ 418; Aeol. ὄρπετον with zero grade, cf. below; on the formation Schwyzer 502, Chantraine Formation 299); ἕρπης, -ητος m. `shingles(?)' (Hp.; Schwyzer 499, Chantraine 267), ἑρπήν, -ῆνος m. `id.' (Ph.; after λειχήν a. o.; also ἑρπήνη EM) with ἑρπηνώδης (Ph.); ἕρπηλα a shell-fish (Ath.; form uncertain); ἑρπηδών, -όνος f. `crawling' (Nic.; Chantraine 360f.); ἑρπηστής `crawling animals' (Nic., AP; rare like τευχηστής a. o.; Chantraine 317); - ἕρπυλλος m. f. `tufted thyme' (Com.; after it Lat. serpullum) with ἑρπύλλ-ιον, -άριον `id.' and ἑρπυλλίς `grasshopper' (H.; cf. Strömberg Wortstudien 17); uncertain ἑρπυξή (Dsc. 3, 69; after πύξος?; Strömberg Pflanzennamen 111). - ἕρψις `crawling' (Pl., Arist.). - An expressive enlargement is ἑρπύζω `crawl' (Il.; cf. Schwyzer 736, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 336), to which belongs the Attic aorist ἑρπύσαι (after ἐρύσαι, ἑλκύσαι?); from there ἑρπυστικός (Hp., Arist.) and rare and late ἕρπυσις, -υσμός, -υστήρ, -υστής, -υστάζω. - On ὅρπηξ `sprout, twig' s. v.
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [912] *serp- `crawl'
Etymology: ἕρπω is identical with Skt. sárpati `id.', Lat. serpō `id.'. The zero grade in Aeol. ὄρπετον also in the Skt. thematic root aorist á-sr̥p-at. Several languages have derived indications of the snake: Skt. sarpá- m., Lat. serpens, Alb. gjarpër. - On meaning and spread of ἕρπω Bloch Suppl. Verba 71ff. Details in W.-Hofmann and Ernout-Meillet s. serpō.
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