ἐλαία
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
ἔλαιον
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
elaion
English translation (word)
olive, olive oil
Transliteration (Etymon)
elaia
English translation (etymon)
olive tree
Century
12 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 326
Ed.
T. Gaisford, Etymologicum Magnum, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1848
Quotation
Ἔλαιον: Ὁ καρπός. Παρὰ τὸ λεῖον λέαιον, τὸ λεαῖνον τὸ σῶμα· καὶ ἐν ὑπερθέσει, ἔλαιον. Ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐλαία τοῦ φυτοῦ παρωνύμως ἔλαιον, τὸ τρωγόμενον
Translation (En)
Elaion "olive". The fruit. From leios "smooth", *leaion, that which makes the body smooth. And with metathesis, elaion. Or from elaia, the olive tree, the paronym elaion, the edible fruit
Parallels
Etym. Symeonis, epsilon 269 (Ἔλαιον· ὁ καρπός· παρὰ τὸ λεῖον, τὸ λεαῖνον τὸ σῶμα, καὶ ἐν ὑπερθέσει ἔλαιον. Ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐλαία τοῦ φυτοῦ δύναται παρωνύμως ἡ ἐλαία· ἢ παρὰ τὸ λεῖον, ἢ παρὰ τὸ λειῶ λέαινα καὶ ἐν ὑπερθέσει ἐλαία· ἢ τὸ λεαῖνον ἔλαιον τίκτουσα. Ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἕλος ἐν ἕλεσι γὰρ ὑγροῖς τὸ φυτόν· ἢ παρὰ τὴν ἀλέαν, ἤγουν τὴν θερμασίαν)
Modern etymology
Loanword. Borrowed in Latin as olīva, oleum. Arm. ewł "oil" goes back to the same source (Beekes, EDG)
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG has έλαιο as a learned word, the usual word is λάδι, from ἐλᾴδιον
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Derivational etymology underlying the relationship between the name of the tree and that of its fruit, and logically deriving the latter from the former