- σχέτλιος
- σχέτλιοςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: Adj. with strong emotional feeling, usu. used in denigrating sense, approx. `audacious, heinous, cruel, miserable' (Il.), quite rarely in positiv sense, approx. `obstinate, tireless' (Hom.); details on the meaning in Brunius-Nilsson Δαιμόνιε (Diss. Uppsala 1955) 46ff., 75ff.Derivatives: σχετλι-άζω, quite rarely w. κατα-, ἀπο-, ἐπι-, `to experience something as cruel, to rise against, to complain' (Att.) with -ασμός (Th., Arist. a.o.), -αστικός (late).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Prob. from *σχέ-θλιος dissimilated, which can be a byform of *σχε-θλό-ς (cf. μείλιχ-ος : -ιος, ἥσυχ-ος : -ιος a.o.); cf. the opposite ἐσ-θλό-ς. Orig. meaning therefore `persevering'; cf. Hermann Sprachwiss. Komm. zu ι 295. -- The proposed etym. is not supported by any evidence.Page in Frisk: 2,838
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.