The Greek Diminutive Suffix -loxo- -lOy.)]-. 187 



*>>Yip-/i. In either case the loss of the primitive shows that it 

 could not have been felt as a diminutive. It occurs e. g. in Hes. 

 7.Y][jivia7toi»5 • 'zy.c, Tatvia^ Hupaxouo-ioi. Polyb. i8. 29. 12 o-Tscpavou? 

 67ctppiXTOuv-£? xai >.Y]ptcrxou?. Also in an Attic inscription Ditf-. 

 633. 25 (4th cent. B. C). As a noose for birds Ath. 200 C, and 

 as a surgical bandage Heracl. ap. Galen, and Paul. Aeg. 6. 24. 

 anlYiviaxov = (77c!Xy]viov ' bandage ' was in turn influenced by >.y]- 

 [xvtoy.o? in its last use, i. e. if the later appearance of the latter is 

 due to accident. G'jz'kr^viar.ov is found in Hipp, 467. 42 and the 

 Samian inscription of Hoffm. 3. 169. 24 f. Toqviaxoq ' a pair of 

 compasses ' = Topvo?. Cf. Philo in Math. Vett. p. 53. 4. This word 

 and rqvnaviaxoQ (Martyrium in Actis SS. Maji vol. 4, p. 624) 

 ' borer ' = TpuT^avov evidently followed certain names of tools of 

 § 42, which were largely equivalent to their primitives, e. g. 

 ^oyXiaxoc, or o^tkiaxoq. ai()0{iaviaxog • -z^iizouc, Hes. is obscure be- 

 cause no primitive is found, yet it must have followed T-pixoBicrxo? 

 (§ 67). We do not know whether *G-^po[jav6c,^ which is to be as- 

 sumed as primitive, was a substantive of the same meaning or an 

 adjective. Finally there are two words in -ictxo- designating cham- 

 bers which are equivalent to their primitives : xoiran'taxog (Artemid. 

 4. 46 ; Anna Comn. 361 A ; Schol. Z 316 &a>.a[xo;, 6 ia-i vujj-cpixo; 

 xoiTwvifT/toc) = xoiTcov, and olxiaxoQ (Herodian 7. 9 £icrs};&>wv piovo? 

 tic, Tov oixi(7xov (b? By] xaQ-suBYiTcov) = olxo?. The cause was prob- 

 ably syncretism with -wv through the synonym S(o[j.ai:iov, in which 

 -lov however had the meaning 'belonging to' the house (Bwjxa). 

 Since oTxo$, hke Bw[j.a, could also mean ' house ' as well as ' cham- 

 ber,' there was an analogical relation between primitive and de- 

 rivative in Bo)[j.aTiov : Bwjj.a and oJxtTxo? : olxoc, while xoitcovitxos 

 followed the latter. 



88. Apparent cases of the meaning ' belonging to ' are the follow- 

 ing : ^ov^on'iaxog (Oribas. p. iii f. Mai.) ' a truss for inguinal her- 

 nia ' : [3o!j(Jc6v ' inguen,' 'that which belongs to the inguen ' ; yaQi- 

 axog (Marcell. Sid. 33) an unknown fish : yapoi; ' a sauce made of 

 brine and small fish,' ' that which is used for or belongs to the 

 brine sauce ' ; ^vtoxrj (LXX i. Mace. i. 22) and i>vtaxog (Joseph. 

 A. J. 3. 6. 8) : buoc, ' incense,' ' that which is connected with or used 

 for incense ' ; Uavlaxog (Cic. De nat. deor. 3. 17. 43) ' an attendant 

 of Ilav,' 'he who belongs to Pan.' For the second, third, and 

 fourth the influence of congeneric attraction is clear enough : yapi- 

 (TKoc, followed names of fish like yT^auxicrxo? (§ 36 A), and Q^uictxy] 



1 Janson, op. cit. 5, thinks the whole word is foreign, as may well be. 

 Cf. l^iaxog (§ 38 and note). 

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