πράσον
Word
Validation
No
Word-form
πρασιάν
Word-lemma
Etymon-lemma
Transliteration (Word)
prasia
English translation (word)
bed in a garden, garden-plot
Transliteration (Etymon)
prason
English translation (etymon)
leek
Century
3 AD
Source
idem
Ref.
Quaestionum Homericarum ad Iliadem pertinentium reliquiae, 24.221
Ed.
H. Schrader, Porphyrii quaestionum Homericarum ad Iliadem pertinentium reliquiae, fasc. 1 & 2, Leipzig: Teubner, 1:1880; 2:1882
Quotation
πρασιὰν δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν λαχανευομένων τόπων πράσοις, ἅπερ καὶ ἐπ’ ἐσχάτοις φυτεύουσιν
Translation (En)
Prasia "garden-plot" gets its name from the places where leeks (prasois) are grown – leeks which grow at the end of the garden
Parallels
Eustathius, Comm. Od., vol. 1, p. 269 (Πρασιαὶ δὲ, τόποι λαχανηφόροι, ἀπὸ μέρους τῶν πράσων κληθέντες. ἀφ’ ὧν καὶ χρῶμα τὸ πράσιον, περιεκτικὴ δὲ ἡ λέξις ὡς καὶ ἡ ἀχυρμιά)
Modern etymology
Derivative of πράσον "leek"
Persistence in Modern Greek
MG still has πρασιά "flowerbed, parterre"
Entry By
Le Feuvre
Comment
Correct derivational etymology