- ῥόδον
- ῥόδονGrammatical information: n.Meaning: `rose' (h. Cer.).Other forms: Aeol. βρόδον OKDialectal forms: Myc. wodowe \/wordo-wen\/ epithet of oil, s. Chadwick-Baumbach 243, Lejeune Mémoires 2, 26.Compounds: Compp., e.g. ῥοδο-δάκτυλος `rosyfingered', adjunct of Ήώς (Hom.), βροδο-δάκτυλος of the moon (Sapph.); cf. Leumann Hom. Wörter 18 n. 9), κυνό-ρροδον n. `dog rose, Rosa canina' (Thphr.; Strömberg Pfl.namen 30 a. 98).Derivatives: 1. ῥοδ-έα, -έη, -ῆ f. `rose tree' (Archil.); 2. -(ε)ών, -(ε)ῶνος m. `bed of roses' (AP, pap.) with -ωνιά f. `bed of roses, rose garden, rose tree' (Hecat.; Scheller Oxytonierung 70); 3. -ιη f. `bed of roses' (Mycale IVa); 4. -όεις `of roses' (Ψ 186, B., E. in lyr.), -εος `id, roselike' (poet. h. Cer.), -ινος `of roses' (Anacr.); on the adj. s. Schmid -εος und -ειος 47 w. n.1, Zumbach Neuerungen 14, and Forderer Gnomon 30, 96; 5. -άριον n. `rose ornament' (pap.), -ίς, -ίδος f. `rose pastille' (Dsc.); 6. -ίτης m. `rose wine' (Dsc.; Redard 98), -ῖτις f. n. of a stone, because of the colour (Plin.; Redard 60); 7. -ουντία f. `dish flavoured with roses' (Ath.; as if from *ῥοδοῦς; cf. Scheller l.c. w. n.1); 8. -ίζω `to cover with roses', of a tomb, with -ισμός, -ίσια pl. = Lat. Rosalia (Asia Minor), also `to make smell like roses' (Thphr., Alex. Aphr.), intr. `to resemble a rose' (Dsc.); 9. also the islandname `Ρόδος ? (Georgacas Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 6,155).Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Iran. ?Etymology: PGr. Ϝρόδον (= Aeol. βρόδον) comes from the east, pob. first like Arm. vard `rose' from OIran. *u̯r̥da- ( \> NPers. gul `id.'); Schwyzer 344 n. 2 with Schulze (s.bel.). To this also Aram. wardā', Arab. ward `id.' Further history debated; after Mayrhofer Arch. Or. 18, 74 from Arab. warada `bloom', waruda `be red'; recalled by Mayrhofer Sprache 7(1961)185. Diff. Schulze BerlAkSb. 1910, 806ff.: with Germ., e.g. OE word `thorn-bush', Lat. rubus `blackberry-bush' from IE *u̯r̥dho-; to be rejected. Pelasgian etymology by v. Windekens Le Pélasgique 132. -- From Greek prob. Lat. rosa, in detail unlear (s. W.-Hofmann s.v.).Page in Frisk: 2,660-661
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