- λοιμός
- λοιμόςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `pest, deathly plague' (A 61), metaph. `mischievous man' (D.), also in adj. function (LXX, christl. lit.); on the meaning Pfister PhW 60, 222ff..Other forms: λοίμη H. prob. for λύμη.Derivatives: λοιμώδης `plague-like' (Hp., Th.), λοιμικός `belonging to the pest' (Hp., hell.; Chantraine Études 121), λοίμιος surn. of Apollon in Lindos (Macr.); λοιμότης `plague-like situation' (LXX); λοιμεύομαι `contaminated with the pest' (LXX), λοιμώσσω, -ώττω `suffer from the pest' (Gal., Luc.).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Mostly taken as ablauting with λῑμός (s. v.). Also λοιγός has been considered as a root-cognate, and as a third suffixal variant was considered λοιτός λοιμός H. (Persson Stud. 15, Specht Ursprung 218, 226). Or a cross of λιμός and λοιγός; all desperate attempts. λοιτός is by Schmidt s.v. on good grounds taken as wrong for λοιγός (other suggestion in WP. 2, 402). - Diff. on λοιμός (to λείβω?) Wackernagel KZ 30, 295 (= Kl. Schr. 1, 658); diff. again Prellwitz s. v. (s. WP. 2, 388).Page in Frisk: 2,134-135
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.