πλοῦτος

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πλούσιος

Transliteration (Word)

plousios

English translation (word)

wealthy

Transliteration (Etymon)

ploutos

English translation (etymon)

wealth

Author

Philoxenus

Century

1 BC

Reference

fr. 394

Edition

C. Theodoridis, Die Fragmente des Grammatikers Philoxenos [Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker (SGLG) 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1976

Source

Etym. Genuinum

Ref.

Etym. Magnum, p. 236

Ed.

T. Gaisford, Etymologicum magnum, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1848 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1967)

Quotation

(Theodoridis) γνήσιος· ὁ μὴ νόθος. γενήσω γενήσιος, ὡς θαυμάσω θαυμάσιος, καὶ κατὰ συγκοπὴν γνήσιος, ὁ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς γεννηθείς. ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ γενητὸς γενήσιος, ὡς πλοῦτος πλούσιος, καὶ κατὰ συγκοπὴν γνήσιος. οὕτως Φιλόξενος.

Translation (En)

Gnēsios "legitimate": the one who is not a bastard. Genēsō "I will beget" *genēsios, as thaumasō "I will admire" thaumasios "admirable", and y syncope gnēsios, the one born from the same woman. Or from genētos genēsios, as ploutos "wealth", plousios "wealthy", and by syncope gnēsios. So says Philoxenus

Comment

Correct derivational etymology. The adjective is derived from the noun

Parallels

Etym. Magnum, Kllierges, p. 236 (idem); Etym. Symeonis, gamma 125 (idem); Herodian, De prosodia catholica, Lentz III/1, p. 124 ((Λάκωνες) ἐνιαυτός ἐνιαύσιος ἐνιαύτιος λέγουσιν ὑπόμνησιν διδόντες τοῦ προτέρου τ· πλοῦτος πλούσιος πλούτιος); Epimerismi homerici ordine alphabetico traditi, alpha 137 (idem); Suda, pi 1768 (idem); Etym. Gudianum, alpha, p. 215 (idem); Herodian, Περὶ ὀρθογραφίας, Lentz III/2, p. 439 (Πάντα τὰ εἰς ιος κτητικὰ ἀπὸ πρωτοτύπων εἰς τος γινόμενα, εἰ μεταβάλλει τὸ τ εἰς σ, διὰ τοῦ ι γράφεται οἷον ἄμβροτος ἀμβρόσιος, ἀκήρατος ἀκηράσιος, ἐνιαυτός ἐνιαύσιος, πλοῦτος πλούσιος); Choeroboscus, Περί ποσότητος, p. 287 (idem)

Modern etymology

Derivative of πλοῦτος

Persistence in Modern Greek

Yes

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