- όβελός
- όβελόςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `broach, pillar in roof russ, bar of metal used as coin or weight, obol' (= the sixth part of a drachme), `horizontal line used as a diacritic' (Il.).Other forms: ὀβολός (Att.), ὀδελός (Dor., Arc., also Nic.; Solmsen Wortforsch. 111 n. 1), ὀβελλός (Thess.).Compounds: Compp., e.g. ὀβολο-στάτης m. "obol weigher", i.e. `usurer' (Com.), τρι-ώβολον, Dor. -ώδελον m. (-ω- compos. lengthening) `coin of three obols, amount of three obols = half a drachme' (Th., Ar.; Sommer Nominalkomp. 50 w. many details); also ὀδολκαί ὀβολοί H. from *ὀδελ-ολκαί? (Bechtel Dial. 2,715; doubts in Kretschmer Glotta 2, 326).Derivatives: 1. Diminut. ὀβελίσκος m. `(little) spit, needle, obelisk etc.' (Att., hell.; cf. Chantraine Form. 408); 2. ὀβελίας (ἄρτος) `bread toasted on a spit' (Hp., Com.; Chantraine Form. 95); 3. ὀβελίτης = -ίας (Poll.; Redard 90); 4. ὀβελεία ( = ία) f. name of an iron object (Att. inscr.), -ία f. `obol tax?' (Kos Ia); 5. ὀβελ-ιαῖος `spitlike' (medic.), ὀβολιαῖος `worth an obol, weighing an obol' (Arist.); 6. ὀβελίζω `to mark with an obelos' (Cic., Hermog.) with ὀβελισμός m. `marking with an obelos' (sch.); but ὀβολισμός m. about `freight' (pap. IIIp).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: The variation δ : β in ὀδελός : ὀβελός (from where through vowelassimilation ὀβολός, through secondary gemination ὀβελλός; Schwyzer 255 and 238) can be explained from a labiovelar gʷ, with ὀβελός outside Aeolic from analogy (cf. ὠβάλλετο διωθεῖτο H.?). The word is usually connected with the nearly synonymous βέλος, but the initial. ὀ- cannot then be explained. Improbable (ὀβελός prop. `the meat-portion on the broach') by B. Laum Heiliges Geld (Tübingen 1924) is rejected by Wahrmann Glotta 17, 242 (s. also Idg. Jb. 11, 267). The word is clearly Pre-Greek (Furnée 389).Page in Frisk: 2,344-345
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.