- πόσθη
- πόσθηGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `the male member' (Ar. Nu. 1014), also `foreskin' (medic.).Other forms: Cf. ἀκροβυστία bel.Derivatives: Dimin. πόσθιον n. (Hp., Ar.); -ία f. `foreskin' (Ph.), metaph. `stye on the eyelid' (medic.); shortened from ἀκρο-ποσθ-ία (s.bel.; Scheller Oxytonierung 43 n. 2) ?; -ων, -ωνος m. `provided with π.', vulgar designation of a boy (Ar. Pax 1300; meaning unclear in Luc. Lex. 12); also PN (for it Βόσθων [Halicarn.]?; Masson Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 10, 162) like -ίων, -ύλος; id., with familiar λ-enlargement, -αλίων (Dor. inscr. around 200a); s. Taillardat Rev. de phil. 87, 249f.; -αλίσκος = -ων (Ar. Th. 291; coni. Dindorf, agreeing Taillardat l.c.). -- Compound ἀκρο-ποσθ-ία f. (Hp., Arist.) -ιον n. (Poll., Ruf.) `foreskin'; for this ἀκροβυστία f. `id.', coll. `the uncircumcised' = `heathendom' (LXX, NT), prob. with euphemistic folketymology after βύω (EM 53, 47, Blass-Debrunner $ 120, 4).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Of old conncted with πέος; ποσ- is then explained from πέ[σ]-ος with ablaut. For the ending cf. σάθη, also κύσθος a.o. (Specht Ursprung 252). Other proposals by Sandsjoe Adj. auf -αιος 100 n. 1 (cf. Schwyzer 425 Zus. 2) and by Szemerényi Arch. Linguist. 5, 13 ff. (IE *ghu̯osdh-ā, to which also, through Illyr. intermediary, OCS gvozdь `nail', Lat. hasta `bar, javelin', OIr. bot `penis'[?]). -- If ἀκρο-βυστία contains the same word in a different shape, the word is Pre-Greek, which is quite possible for a word of this meaning.Page in Frisk: 2,584
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