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σιρός

siros

pit for keeping corn, silo

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What it meant

1. σιρός · siros — Beekes

σιρός [m.] ‘pit for keeping corn, silo’ (Att. inscr. ν΄, S. Fr., E. Fr., D., Hell. and late), also (metaph.) ‘pitfall’ (Longus) and = δεσμωτήριον ‘prison’ (H.). eVAR The quantity of -ἰ- is unstable: usually short, later also σειρός. *COMP σιρο-μάστης [m.] lit. “seeker of pits”, ‘probe, gauge’ (Ph. Bel., LXX). *ETYM Technical word without etymology. The variation between oip-, oip-, σειρ- is hard to explain from … — [Beekes, s.v. σιρός, p. 1386]

2. σιρός · siros — Frisk

σιρός (Quantität schwankend, meist Kürze, später auch σειρός) m. “Getreidegrube, Silo’ (att. Inschr. V®, S. Fr., Ἐπ Fr., D., hell. u. sp.), auch (übertr.) “Fallgrube’ (Longus) und = δεσμωτήριον (H.; 5. zu κέραμος); σιρο-μάστης m. „Grubensucher“, ‘Sonde, Visierstab’ (Ph. Bel., LXX u.a.). — Technisches Wort ohne Etymologie. Vermutung von Solmsen IF 30, 11 und Persson Eranos 20, 80ff.: eig. „Einbiegung, Einsenkung“ zu … — [Frisk, s.v. σιρός, p. 1682]

3. σιρός · siros — LSJ

pit

pit for keeping corn in, IG 1(2).76.10, S. Fr. 276, E. Fr. 827, Anaxandr. 41.28 (anap.), D. 8.45, 10.16, PLond. 2.216.11 (i A.D.).

II pitfall

pitfall, Longus 1.11. [ῐ, E. l.c., Anaxandr. l.c., Eratosth. 35.4, ῑ in Xenoph. (?) 41 D.: later written σειρός, D.S. 19.44, 2 Ep.Pet. 2.4, PLeid.X. 50 B. (iii/iv A.D.).]

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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