σῦφαρ

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally compared with Latin sūber (“cork oak”), in spite of the semantic difficulties. If correct, they are probably borrowings from a common source, perhaps substrate. According to Pisani, it is related to ὕφεαρ (húphear, “mistletoe”), but formally and semantically this is hardly possible. Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin of the word.[1] This is further evidenced by the suffix -αρ (-ar), which can also be seen in the words κύδαρ (kúdar), σκίναρ (skínar), and ἴκταρ (íktar).[2] Note that it is indeclinable as well.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

σῦφαρ • (sûphar) n (indeclinable)

  1. piece of old or wrinkled skin
  2. wrinkled, decrepit person
  3. slough of a serpent
    Synonyms: θώραξ (thṓrax), λεβηρίς (lebērís)
  4. skim of milk, scum
  5. wrinkled fig

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σῦφαρ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1425–1426
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 32: “27 -αρ”

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