μαδάω

μαδάω

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `be moist' (Thphr.; on a disease of a fir-tree), also `fall off' of hair, also with ἀπο- (Hp., Ar., Arist., LXX).

Other forms: aor. μαδῆσαι

Derivatives: μάδησις `falling off of hair' (Hp.), μαδαῖος `being moist' (Poet. de herb.; after ἰκμαῖος?). - Factitive μαδίζω, also with ἀπο-, `remove the hair, pluck or singe bare' (medic.) with μαδιστήριον `instrument, place where depilation is carried on' = ευ῝στρα (Halicarn. I^a, sch.), ὁλο-μάδιστος `quite bald' (Cyran.), also μάδισος (s. below); as iterative μαδάσκομαι `become moist' (medic. VII^p). - Expressive enlargement μα[γ]δάλλει τίλλει, ἐσθίει; μα[γ]δάλλοντες τίλλοντες, ἐσθίοντες H., cf. κναδάλλεται κνήθεται H. and Debrunner IF 21, 91. - Besides μαδαρός `being moist' (Hp., Arist.), `bald' (Luc.) with μαδαρότης `baldness, falling off of the hair, the eyelashes' (Hp., Gal.), μαδαρόω `remove the hairs' (LXX Ne. 13, 25, v. l., Crete II^a), μαδάρωσις = -ότης (Gal., Vett. Val.; prob. direct from μαδαρός, cf. Chantraine Form. 279); μαδαρ-ιάω `suffer loss of hair' (Cleopatra ap. Gal. 12, 405). Beside μαδαρός there is μαδι-γένειος `with bald chin' (Arist.); cf. χαλαρός: χαλί-φρων.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [694] *meh₂d-? `be moist, drip'

Etymology: On the development `flow away' \> `fall out' cf. ἐκρέω `flow away, fall out' and Lat. dēfluō `flow down', also `fall out, go out' of hairs. - With μαδάω : μαδαρός cf. χαλάω : χαλαρός and the synonymous pair πλαδάω : πλαδαρός; but aor. μαδῆσαι innovation against χαλάσαι (as λαγαρός : λαγάσαι a. o.); the morphological analysis, however, remains uncertain, cf. Schwyzer 682 f. - Only formally different are: Lat. madeō `be moist, drip, be drunk' (after the intransitives in -ēre), OIr. maidim `break (out)' (intr.), `fall to pieces' (from *'flow out, away' v.t.; can be formally identical with madeō), Skt. mádati (themat. root-pres.), ma-mát-ti (redupl.) a. o. `be drunken, fuddle oneself, swallow, be marry'; further connections, partly uncertain, in Bq, WP. 2, 230ff., Pok. 694f., W.-Hofmann s. madeō; ib. more lit. Attempt to identify μαδαρός and Lat. madidus (\< -iro-s?), in Bloch Sprachgesch. u. Wortbed. 24. - Cf. μαστός and μήδεα. - Note (as backformation?) μάδος (-ον) as plant-name, = ἄμπελος λευκή (Dsc.), because its root was used for depilation; by H. rendered with ψίλωθρον, which may indicate the same plant. Besides μαδωνάϊς = νυμφαία, `water-lily' (Boeot. acc. to Thphr. HP 9, 13; because of its humid stand?); cf. Bechtel Dial. 1, 307, who with several others changes to μαδωνία (cf. Chantraine Form. 208). - Also μάδισος δίκελλα. οἱ δε μαδιβός H., prob. from μαδίζω, s. above a. Chantraine 435; cf. τάμισος (from ταμεῖν)? On *meh₂d- see Lubotsky, MSS 40 (1981)133-138.

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