- πῶρος (1)
- πῶροςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `tuff' (Arist., Thphr., hell. inscr. a.o.), in Anatolia `stone- or chalk-formation, concretion, stone in the bladder, kidney etc.' (Hp., Arist. a.o.).Other forms: Also ποῦρος (inscr. Delphi), πόρος (Thphr. Lap. 7, Gal. 6, 57)Compounds: As 1. member a.o. in πωρ-όμφαλον n. subst. bahuvrihi `concretion in the navel' (Gal.).Derivatives: 1. Dimin. πωρ-ίον, -ίδιον n. `callosity' (medic.); 2. adj. πώρ-ινος `of tuff' (Hdt., Ar., hell. inscr. a.o.), -εία λίθος `tuff' (Str.), -ώδης 'π. -like' (Gal.); 3. verb πωρ-όομαι, -όω, also w. δια-, ἐπι-, συν-, `to petrify, to harden, to grow together in a concretion, grow hard' (Hp., Arist., Thphr., NT) with (ἐπι-) πώρ-ωμα, -ωσις `petrification, concretion' (Hp., Gal., NT). 4. πωρ-ίασις f. `callus on the eye-lid' (Gal.), as if from *πωρ-ιᾶν (Schwyzer 732).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Orig. indicating a kind of stone and at home in building, πῶρος with its derivv. was used esp. by the medics. No etymology. Acc. to Haupt Actes du 16. congr. des orient. (1912) 84f. from Assyr. pûlu `shell-lime'. With πωρεῖν κηδεύειν, πενθεῖν, πωρῆσαι λυπῆσαι H. and πωρητύς f. `pain' (Antim.) no connection seems possible. Cf. however ταλαίπωρος. -- Furnée 328 connects *ψῶρος in ψωρίτης λίθος `a kind of marble' (Cyran 46), and Hitt. purut- `loam, chalk, mortar'.Page in Frisk: 2,635
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