λίαν + πίων
Word
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Word-form
λίπος
Word-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
lipos
English translation (word)
fat (noun)
Transliteration (Etymon)
lian + piōn
English translation (etymon)
too much + fat
Century
9 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Etym. Genuinum, lambda 132
Ed.
K. Alpers, Bericht über Stand und Methode der Ausgabe des Etymologicum genuinum [Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Hist.-filol. Meddelelser 44.3. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1969]
Quotation
Λίπος, Λιπαίνω· παρὰ τὸ λίπος. τοῦτο παρὰ τὸ λίαν πιότητα ἔχειν.
Translation (En)
Lipos "fat", lipainō "to anoint": from lipos. The latter from the fact that it has too much fat (lian piotēta)
Parallels
Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 566 (idem); Etym. Parvum, lambda 11 (Λίπος· παρὰ τὸ λίαν ἐπίρρημα καὶ τὸ πῖον, ὃ σημαίνει τὸ λιπαρόν· τὸ λίαν λιπαρὸν καὶ εὐδιάλυτον); Etym. Gudianum, lambda, p. 371 (Λῖπος, παρὰ τὸ λίαν καὶ τὸ πῖον, ὃ σημαίνει τὸ λιπαρόν· τὸ λίον πῖον καὶ εὐδιάλυτον)
Modern etymology
Belongs with λιπαρός "fat" (adj.), λίπος "fat" (noun), λίπα. PIE *leip- "to stick". Cognate with Ved. rip- (f.) "defilement", riprá- (n.) "dirt", répas- (n.) "dirt, stain" (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has λίπος "fat" as a learned word
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Compositional etymology, keeping only the first syllable or the first consonant of the two members. The second member is assumed to be πίων,as is clear from the Et. Parvum and Et. Magnum. The Genuinum has the derivative πιότης instead. The lemma is etymologized by a synonym (fat / fat), with a quantitative gradation: λίπος is thus fatter than πῖαρ (the noun matching πίων)