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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Based on the original sense of "stone, rock", Frisk derives the word from the root of μᾰ́ρνᾰμαι (márnamai, “to fight, battle”) (perhaps in a sense of "stone weapons"), with folk-etymological semantic influence from μαρμαίρω (marmaírō, “I sparkle”); others, such as Mazon, prefer to directly connect the word to μαρμαίρω (marmaírō). Due to the lack of strong evidence of connection to other words, as well as perhaps the semantic category of "local rocks", Beekes suggests Pre-Greek origin.[1]
An alternative theory by Roberts suggests a reduplicative formation from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub away, cause harm, to die”), in the sense of marble's fragility.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /már.ma.ros/ → /ˈmar.ma.ros/ → /ˈmar.ma.ros/
Noun
μάρμᾰρος • (mármaros) m (genitive μαρμᾰ́ρου); second declension
- crystalline rock
- marble
- anything made of marble, tombstone
- marble chips
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μάρμαρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 907
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) “marmaros”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 844
Further reading
- “μάρμαρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μάρμαρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μάρμαρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μάρμαρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μάρμαρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3139 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μάρμαρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մարմար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 387a
- Boisacq, Émile (1916) “μάρμαρος”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 611
- “μάρμαρος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011