Hystrix in Greek

• Authors: Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Dictionaries of the Ancient Greek language distinguish only two or three different meanings of the Greek word ὕστριξ. The present author analyses all the contexts and glosses where the word in question appears. On the basis of his own analysis he assumes that dictionaries of Ancient Greek should contain as many as seven different semantems: I. ‘swine bristle’, II. ‘swine leather whip, the cat, used as an instrument of punishment’, III. ‘porcupine, Hystrix cristata L.’, IV. ‘hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus L.’, V. ‘sea urchin’, VI. ‘badger, Meles meles L.’; VII. ‘an unclearly defined animal’.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Studia Ceranea
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 177-185

Dates

published

2019-08-12

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak

Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2084-140X.03.13