The Greek Diminutive Suffix -icr/.o- -loxtj-. 175 



I Names of Persons. 



6i. The idea of small size is sometimes accompanied or supplanted 

 by that of youth, e. g. in [j.£ipa/a(jXOi; ' a young lad,' vsavtcrxoi; ' a 

 (young) youth.' This is partly due do secondary association of 

 youth with small size, since the two qualities usually vary anal- 

 ogously in case of living beings, partly to pattern types which 

 designated a person or animal as too young to be designated by 

 the primitive 



A. uxolovi^iaxoq : axoXouQ-o?, said to be ' a httle attendant ' i. e. 

 ' foot-boy ' in Ath. 550 A. Cf . however Kaibel's note, who would 

 substitute y) xopBu^ifTxov or something like it for dxoXouQ-icrxov, which 

 is certainly unintelligible in the context. L,axoqiaxog : ^axopO(;, ' a 

 httle attendant,' very doubtful in Aglaias Byz. in Rev. de Phil. 

 (1846) 2. I, p. 17 V. 23. 



B. xcoQallanog : xojpaXiov, ' a (httle) lad.' Phot. xoipa}a'7xov • to 

 [xstpaxiov. KpTjTs?. The same word as title of a comedy of Epi- 

 lycus. /^f/^fftx/cxoc :"[xsipaxiov, 'a (young) lad.' Alex. frg. 3. 400 

 'O BsaTCOTYji; o6p,6? Tcspi Xo^ouq yap xots Aii^pi^z [xstpaxtrrxo? wv xoi 

 (piTvOiTocpsTv 'ExsS'ETO. Plato Phaedr. 237 B ^jv o{>t(o By) -ale, [j.a>.>.ov 

 Bs [j.£ipaxi(jXOc, [xoO^cc y-oCKoc,.^ veuviaxog : vsavia?, ' a (young) youth.' 

 Since the word merely emphasizes the youth of the whole class 

 there is usually no tangible distinction between it and its prim- 

 itive. Dinoloch. frg. 4 ; Aesch. (Nsavioxot as title of a drama) ; 

 Herod. 3. 53, 4. 149, 5. 13 ; Thuc. 8. 69. 4 ; Eupol. frg. 2. 565 (51); 

 Plato Resp. 2. 375 A ; Arist. Pol. 5. 4. 1303 b 21 yCyvovTai pv o5v 

 cd axaasi? ou 7i;£pi [j.txp(ov aT-X" Ix [xixpSiv, (jTaaia^ouo"!, Bs %zp\ [Jisya- 

 T^wv. . . . [xsTsjBaXs yap yj tcoIitsioc sx Bijo vsavCoxoiv - crTacrtaa-avTwv, Iv 

 iicac, ap/aT? ovtcov, Twspl £pwi:ixY]v aixiav. naidaQiaxoc : TuaiBapiov, ' a 

 little boy,' used by Schol. Ar. Thesm. 291 to explain izoa^^ixkiav.oc,. 

 naqii^eriaxr^ : xapO^svoi;, ' a (young) virgin,' though mentioned only 

 by the grammarian Arcad. 107. 15, because of the analogy of 

 vsavi(Txoi; probably belongs here, though possibly to A. nooO^aXi,- 

 aaog : 7c6cr8-wv, both comic words for ' httle boy.' The diminutive 

 in Ar. Thesm. 291, where the scholiast explains by 7i:atBapt(7xo?. 

 The conglutinate -cckimioc, by analogy to xwpaT^icrxo? (§ 109). 



2. Names of Animals. 



62. The notion of youth is combined with small size just as in 

 names of persons, but scarcely that of descent, e. g. B£>.cpivtcy.o<; 



1 Here with an hypocoristic element. 



^ Perhaps here with a secondary deteriorative shade. 



