γλουτός

Compared with Slovene glûta (“lump, swelling”); further with Old English clūd (“rock, boulder”), which is semantically less evident. Without t-suffix, there is Sanskrit ग्लौ (glaú, “round lump, wen-like excrescence”). The Indo-European material is not very convincing. Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.

γλουτός • (gloutós) m (genitive γλουτοῦ); second declension

1. (anatomy) rump, buttock

   Synonym: πῡγή (pūgḗ)

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.66
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Fractures 13
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 493a.23
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.9
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 7.2:

     ὅταν δὲ περιενέγκῃ τὸν πόδα, τότε καὶ τὼ γλουτὼ καθέτω ἐπὶ τὸν ἵππον.

     hótan dè perienénkēi tòn póda, tóte kaì tṑ gloutṑ kathétō epì tòn híppon.

   • 120 CE – 175 CE, Vettius Valens, Anthology 393.8
   • 300 CE – 400 CE, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 6.401
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Amores (Affairs of the Heart) 14
   • I., AI 15.374
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 43.23.2
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 62.2.4
   • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Par.Eu.Io. 21.40
   1. (of a horse) a haunch (contrasted with ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip-joint”))
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.340
      • Triph. 81
      • 120 CE – 175 CE, Vettius Valens, Anthology 105.17
      • Thdt., H.Rel. 18.1

• A heteroclite neuter form is attested (in a scholion to Theocritus, Collected Works 6.30) in the plural:

• γλούτῐᾰ (gloútia)

• Greek: γλουτός (gloutós)
• ⇒ Catalan: gluti
• ⇒ English: gluteus

• “γλουτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γλουτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “γλουτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• γλουτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γλουτός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• γλουτός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Ancient Greek γλουτός (gloutós)

• IPA^(key): /ɣluˈtos/

γλουτός • (gloutós) m (plural γλουτοί)

1. (anatomy) buttock, rump, gluteus maximus

• (buttock): κωλομέρι n (koloméri)