σέλῑνον

σέλῑνον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `celery, Apium graveolens' (Il.; on the meaning Andrews ClassPhil. 44, 91 ff.), also metaph. `pudenda rnuliebria' (Phot.)

Other forms: (Aeol. -νν- gramm.).

Dialectal forms: Myc. serino.

Compounds: Often as 2. member, e.g. πετρο-σέλινον n. `rock-celery' (Dsc.; Lat. petro-selīnum, MLat. petrosilium \> NHG. Petersilie); s. Strömberg Pflanz. 33.

Derivatives: From this the river- and townname Σελινοῦς, -οῦντος m., as townname also f. (on the gender Schwyzer-Debrunner 33 n. 2; cf. also Leumann Hom. Wörter 300ff. and Krahe Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 2, 233) with -ούντιος `of S.' (Megar., Th., Str.), also -ούσιος (Thphr.); on the formation Schwyzer 528 and 466; but -ουσία κράμβης (`cabbage') εἶδος (H., Eudem. ap. Ath.) from σέλινον. -- Further the late and rare σελίν-ινος `of celery', -ίτης οἰνος, -ᾶτον n. = Lat. apiātum.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin](X)

Etymology: Without acceptable etymology; prob. foreign word like κύμινον, ῥητίνη (s. vv.). Strömberg Pflanz. 37 thinks (with Hesselman) of σέλμα, σελίς ("after the rough, hollow stalk"). To be rejected Sommer Lautst. 111 f. (s. Bq and WP. 1, 300). -- Furnée 351 points to Myc. sarinuwote.

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