λάτρον

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λάτρις

Transliteration (Word)

latris

English translation (word)

hired servant

Transliteration (Etymon)

latron

English translation (etymon)

wages

Author

Aristophanes Gram.

Century

3-2 BC

Reference

Nomina aetatum, p. 279

Edition

E. Miller, "Opuscules divers," in H. Erbse and K. Latte (eds), Lexica Graeca Minora[Hildesheim: Olms, 1965]

Source

Eustathius of Thessalonica

Ref.

Comm. Il. , vol. 4, p. 535

Ed.

M. van der Valk, Eustathii archiepiscopi Thessalonicensis commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem pertinentes, Leiden, 1971-1987

Quotation

Λάτρις· ὁ ἐπιμίσθιος· τὸν γὰρ μισθὸν λάτρον ἔλεγον· νῦν δὲ καὶ ὁ δοῦλος. 

Translation (En)

Latris "servant", the hired man. Because they used to call the wages latron. Now it also means "slave"

Comment

Correct derivational etymology.

Parallels

Herodian, Περὶ κλίσεως ὀνομάτων, Lentz III/2, p. 701 (καὶ λάτρις λάτριδος παρὰ τὸ λάτρον καὶ εὖνις εὔνιδος παρὰ τὸ εὐνή ἡ κοίτη); Choeroboscus, Prolegomena et scholia in Theodosii Alexandrini canones isagogicos de flexione nominum, p. 199 (τὸ δὲ λάτρις λάτριδος παρὰ τὸ λάτρον ἐστί (λάτρον δὲ λέγεται ὁ μισθὸς καὶ λάτρις ὁ <ἐπὶ> μισθῷ δουλεύων), τὸ δὲ εὖνις εὔνιδος παρὰ τὸ εὐνή ἐστίν, ὃ σημαίνει τὴν κοίτην); Choeroboscus, Epimerismi in Psalmos, p. 192 (Λατρεύειν, παρὰ τὸ λατρεύω, τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ λάτρις, τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ λάτρον, ὃ σημαίνει τὴν ἐν τῷ μισθῷ δουλείαν, τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ ΛΑ ἐπιτατικὸν καὶ τὸ ΤΡΩ τὸ καρτερῶ); Etym. Genuinum, lambda 41 (Λάτρις: ὁ μισθῷ δουλεύων. λάτρον γὰρ ὁ μισθός. ἢ παρὰ τὸ ΛΑ ἐπιτατικὸν καὶ τὸ τρεῖν, ὅ ἐστιν τὸ φοβεῖσθαι); Eustathius, Comm. Il., vol. 4, p. 535 (Ὡς δὲ καὶ λάτρον ὁ ῥηθεὶς μισθὸς ἐλέγετο, δηλοῦσιν οἱ παλαιοί. ὅθεν καὶ λάτρις, ὡς ἐν τοῖς τοῦ γραμματικοῦ Ἀριστοφάνους κεῖται, ὁ ἐπιμίσθιος. ἀλλ’ ὅμως, φησίν, ἐπὶ δούλων τέτακται); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 557 (Λάτρις: Ὁ ἐπὶ μισθῷ δουλεύων· λάτρον γὰρ ὁ μισθός· ἢ παρὰ τὸ ΛΑ ἐπιτατικὸν μόριον, καὶ τὸ   τρεῖν τὸ φοβεῖσθαι. Ἔστι δὲ ἀρσενικὸν καὶ θηλυκόν); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, lambda, p. 1282 (Λάτρις. ὁ μισθῷ δουλεύων. λάτρον γὰρ ὁ μισθός. ἢ παρὰ τὸ λα ἐπιτατικὸν καὶ τρεῖν, ὅ ἐστι φοβεῖσθαι)

Modern etymology

Derivative of λάτρον "wages"

Persistence in Modern Greek

MG has λάτρης "worshipper, lover"

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