- πτόρθος
- πτόρθοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `sprout, shoot, young twig, branch' (ζ 128).Other forms: Also πόρθος πτόρθος H.Compounds: Rarely a. late as 2. element, e.g. φιλό-πτορθος `loving offshoots' (Nonn.). The usual assumption, that πτόρθος would have in Hes. Op. 421 an older abstract meaning `the sprouting' (e.g. Porzig Satzinhalte 50), seems unnecessary.Derivatives: πτορθ-εῖον n. `id.' (Nic.), -ιος m. surn. of Poseidon (as furtherer of vegetation, = φυτάλμιος (Chalkis Va).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]Etymology: Unexplained. Suppositions by H. Petersson KZ 47, 272 f. (to πόρτις etc.), by Cuny REIE 1, 102 ff. (to παρθένος), by J. Trier Venus (Münstersche Forschungen 15 [1963]) 187ff. (to NHG Bart, Dutch baard `beard'). Older attempt (by Brugmann) in Bq. -- There is the variant πόρθος; and Arm. ort' `vine'. Furnée 317 considers a common loan.Page in Frisk: 2,615
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.