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ἔλπος·

elpos

olive oil, rendered fat, abundance

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What it meant

1. ἔλπος · elpos — Beekes

ἔλπος [n.]? - ἔλαιον, στέαρ, εὐθηνία ‘olive oil, rendered fat, abundance’; ἔλφος’ βούτυρον. Κύπριοι ‘butter (Cypr.) (H.). *DER On > ὄλπη ‘oil-bottle’, see s.v. *ETYM The word has been compared with an IE word for ‘fat’, *selp-: Skt. sarpfs- [n.] ‘molten butter, lard’, ToB salype ‘fat, oil’, PGm. *salba- ‘salve’, as well as Alb. gjalpé ‘butter’. Nevertheless, one. would expect a spiritus asper in Greek. The … — [Beekes, s.v. ἔλπος, p. 462]

2. ἔλπος · elpos — Chantraine

ἔλπος : ἔλαιον, στέαρ, εὐθηνία (Hsch.) ; ἔλφος * βούτυρον. Κύπριοι fibid.). Outre ces gloses on a avec vocalisme ὁ ὄλπη f., «bouteille de cuir contenant en principe l'huile pour les athlètes» (Achae., Théoc.), mot dialectal, cf. Clitarch. ap. Ath. 495 c; dérivé ὄλπις, τιος et -ἰδος f. (Sapho, Théoc., Call.), même sens, appliqué p.-ê. à un flacon de vin chez Sapho 141 L.P. Cf. encore Bechtel, Gr. Dial. 1,123 et 209. … — [Chantraine, s.v. ἔλπος, p. 356]

3. ἔλπος · elpos — Frisk

ἔλπος " ἔλαιον, στέαρ, εὐθηνία; ἔλφος" βούτυρον. Κύπριοι H. Daneben ὄλπη "Ölflasche’ (Achae. [78], Theok. usw.), ὄλπις, -(δ)ος £. “Weinkanne’ (Sapph.), “Ölflasche” (Theok., Kall.); zur Bedeutung u. a. Bechtel Dial. I, 123 und 209. — Keine Zusammensetzungen oder Ableitungen. Altes Wort für “Fett, Schmalz’ u. dgl. Bis auf den Akzent und den Vokal der Endsilbe stimmt ZAros, wenn psilotisch für Ἐξλπος, zu aind. sarpis- … — [Frisk, s.v. ἔλπος, p. 535]

4. ἔλπος· · elpos· — LSJ

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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