- καινός
- καινόςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `new, newly found, unexpected' (IA.).Compounds: Often as 1st member, e. g. in καινο-τομέω (: καινὰ τέμνειν), prop. expression of mining `cut out a new (type of) stone'', metaphor. `introduce innovations (in the state)' with -τομία, -τόμος (Att.), καινο-ποιέω `introduce innovations, renovate' (S., Plb.) with -ποιΐα, -ποιητής, s. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 90f.Derivatives: Ab (NT) with (ἀνα-)καίνωσις (J., NT). - EN Καινίας, Καίνιος a. o. (Bechtel Hist. Personennamen 229), Καινεύς with Καινεΐδης (Boßhardt Die Nom. astracts καινότης `innovation' (Att.). - Denomin. verbs: 1. καινίζω `innovate' (Trag.), also with prefix, esp. ἀνα- (Isoc., Str., Plu.), ἐγ- (LXX, NT); from there (ἐγ-)καίνισις, -ισμός (LXX); postverbal ἐγκαίνια pl. `consecration of a temple' (LXX, NT). - 2. καινόω `innovate' (Hdt., Th.), ἀνα-καινόςuf -ευς 128, Debrunner Άντίδωρον 32).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [563] *ken- `new fresh'.Etymology: One compares Av. kainī̆(n)-, Skt. gen. pl. kanī́nām `girls', with the full grade nom. ag. kanyā̀ `girl' (reinterpreted as ā-stem) and the adj. kanī́na- `young' (Wackernagel-Debrunner Ai. Gramm. 3, 112f.; also K. Hoffmann Münch. Stud. 6, 38); primary comp. kánīyas-, kániṣṭha-. Doubtful is however OWelsh cein `beautiful' (Pedersen Vergl. Gramm. 1, 23). - A remote cognate further Lat. recēns `fresh, new, young'; if from re-cen-t-, it belongs as primary t-derivation to a verb `rise freshly, come up, begin' in OIr. cinim `rise', OCS. vъ-, na-čьnǫ, -čęti `begin' (IE. *ken-). More forms in Bq s. v., W.-Hofmann s. recēns, Pok. 563f. - Not with Wackernagel Verm. Beiträge 38f. (= Kl. Schr. 1, 799f.) to καίνυμαι, κέκασμαι from *καιδνός.Page in Frisk: 1,754
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.