ὄζω
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Ῥόδον. τὸ ἄνθος. παρὰ τὸ ὄζω ὄδον ἐστὶ, καὶ πλεονασμῷ τοῦ ρ, ῥόδον. οὕτως Ἡρωδιανὸς ἐν Ἐπιμερισμοῖς
Translation (En)
Rhodon "rose": the flower. From ozō "to smell", *odon, and through adjunction of [r], rhodon. This is what Herodian says in the Epimerisms
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Epimerismi omerici ordine alphabetico traditi, mu 67 (ὡς γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄζω ὄδον καὶ πλεονασμῷ τοῦ ρ ῥόδον καὶ κρύω κρύον, οὕτως παρὰ τὸ μέλον ἐκτάσει τοῦ ε εἰς η μῆλον); Etym. Gudianum, rho, p. 493 (Ῥοδὸν, τὸ ἄνθος, παρὰ τὸ ζώοδον, καὶ ῥοδὸν, τὸ τὴν ζωὴν δωρούμενον, διὰ τῆς εὐωδίας· καὶ ῥοδὸν κατ’ ἀντίφρασιν, τὸ μὴ ὄζον ἀλλ’ εὔοσμον ὄν); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 705 (Ῥόδον: Παρὰ τὸ ὄζω, ὄδον, καὶ ῥόδον κατὰ ἀντίφρασιν, τὸ μὴ ὄζον, ἀλλ’ εὔοσμον ὄν); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, rho, p. 1619 (Ῥόδον. παρὰ τὸ ὄζω ὄδον καὶ ῥόδον κατὰ ἀντίφρασιν); Scholia in Theocritum (vetera) 5.93a (ῥόδον παρὰ τὸ θᾶττον ἀπορρεῖν· ῥοῶδες γάρ ἐστιν ἤτοι συντόμως φθειρόμενον. ἢ <ἀπὸ τοῦ ῥεῖν> ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ τὴν ὀδμὴν ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄζω)
Comment
Descriptive derivational etymology etymologizing the noun of the flower from its main feature, smell. It implies a formal manipulation, the adjunction of the initial consonant. The Etym. Gudianum explains it as an antiphrasis because in Byzantine Greek ὄζω specialized in the meaning "to stink" (which is its meaning in Modern Greek), yielding what appears as an etymology a contrario.