σῦριγξ

σῦριγξ, -ιγγος

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `quill, flute, syrinx' (Il.); also of pipe-like objects, e.g. `windpipe, blood-vessel, fistula' (medic. a.o.), `spear-case' (T387), `hole in the nave of a wheel (weel-bus, Germ. Radbüchse' (trag. a.o.), `subterranean passage' (Plb. a.o.).

Compounds: Some compp., egB. πεντε-σύριγγος `with five pipes' (Ar. a.o.).

Derivatives: Many derivv. 1. Diminut. συρίγγ-ιον n. (Hp., Plu. a.o.), -ίδιον n. (Hero). 2. -ίς f. `kind of κασία' (medic.). 3. -ίας m. des. of a tube (κάλαμος; Thphr., Dsc.; cf. Strömberg Theophrastea 91). 4. -ίτης m., -ῖτις f. name of a precious stone (Ps.-Dsc., Plin.; Redard 62). 5. -ώδης `hollow, fistular' (Hp.). 6. -ιακός `meant for fistulae' (medic.; after καρδιακός a.o. or from συρίγγιον). -- Denomin. verbs: 1. συρίζω (Ion. poet. h. Merc.), Att. -ίττω (Pl., D., Arist. etc.), Dor. -ίσδω (Theoc.), aor. -ίξαι (Ar.), -ίσαι (Babr., Luc.), fut. -ίξομαι (Luc.), -ίσω (Hero a.o.), -ιῶ (LXX), also w. ὑπο-, ἐκ, ἀπο- a.o., `to blow the syrinx, to whistle, to hiss'. From it σύρ-ιγμα n. `tone of a pipe' (-ισμα H.) with -ιγματώδης `pipe-like, hissing' (medic.), -ιγμός (X., Arist. etc.), -ισμός (LXX a.o.) m. `the whistling, whirr', -ιγξις f. `flute-playing' (sch.), -ικτής, -ιστής (Arist., Corn.), -ικτάς (Theoc., AP), -ιστήρ (AP) with -ιστηρίδιον meaning unclear (pap. I^a), -ιγκτής (Phot.) m. `flutist', also `the whistling'; on the formations Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 232 n. 2; -ιστική (τέχνη) `the art of flute-playing' (sch.). 2. συριγγ-όομαι, -όω, also w. ἐκ-, προ-, ἀπο-, `to become hollow, to get a fistula, to make into a pipe etc.' (Hp. a.o.) with -ωσις f. `formation of a fistula' (medic.), -ωμα n. `fistula' (Vett. Val.). 3. -ιάω `to suffer from a fistula' (Hippiatr.).

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

Etymology: Formation like σάλπιγξ, φόρμιγξ (Chantraine Form. 398), what implies Mediterranean or oriental origin. IE etymology by Solmsen Wortforsch. 129 ff.: deriv. in -ιγγ- from a noun *σῡ-ρος, resp. -ρον, -ρᾱ with cognates in σωλήν (? s. v.) and σαυρωτήρ (?; s. σαύρα), to which also Skt. tūṇa- m. `quiver', tū́ṇava- m. `flute' (rejected by Mayrhofer s. v.): IE tu̯ō[u]- : tu̯Hu- : tū- (WP. 1, 752f., Pok. 1102 w. further lit.). -- From Greek Skt. suruṅgā f. `subterranean passage' (Stein ZII, 280ff.; extensive on the etymology and hirtory of the meaning); here also Arm. sring `flute, pipe' (LW [loanword] from common source? Adjarian Mel. Boisacq 1.3). -- Clearly a Pre-Greek word (not in Furnée).

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