- ἱδρύω
- ἱδρύωGrammatical information: v.Meaning: `to make sit down, settle, establish, found'.Other forms: Aor. ἱδρῦσαι (Il.), pass. ἱδρυνθῆναι (Γ 78, Η 56; for -ῡθῆναι? Schwyzer 761 n. 5), perf. pass. ἵδρῡμαι (A.), Act. ἵδρυκα (Arist.),Compounds: Often with prefix, esp. καθ- (wozu ἐγ-καθιδρύω a. o.),Derivatives: ἵδρυμα `what was set up, founded, statue, temple-building' (IA), ἵδρυσις `founding, settling' (Hp., Pl., Str., Plu.).Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [884] *sed- `sit'Etymology: Denominative verb, from a noun *ἱδρυ- (?) (Schwyzer 727 and 495); an r-deriv. of the verb `sit, set' in ἕζομαι, ἵζω; cf. esp. ἕδρα. The ἱ- from ἵζω (Pisani Ist. Lomb. 73 : 2, 2); ( ι as reduced grade of ε is impossible, Bq, Schwyzer 351, Sturtevant Lang. 19, 300; but see Manessy -Guitton, An Fac. Let. et Sc. Hum. de Nice: from s ̊d-; cf. Meier-Brügger, Idg. Sprachwissschaft (2000) 90f.: *s ̊d-wr̥-y-)̇.Page in Frisk: 1,710
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