From PeselyG@apsu.edu Sat Jun 22 08:21:20 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g5MFLJw3056996 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:21:19 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Sat Jun 22 08:21:19 2002 -0700 Received: from exchange.apsu.edu (exchange.apsu.edu [198.146.56.24]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g5MFLIbq003604 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:21:19 -0700 Received: by exchange.apsu.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:21:15 -0500 Message-ID: <8C1D549B4324D51181010090277A49DE0442C31A@exchange.apsu.edu> From: "Pesely, George" To: "'classics@u.washington.edu'" Subject: RE: etymology Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:21:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary has "radish" from French radis, from Italian radice, from Latin radix, -icis. The word used in Herodotus 2.125.6 (on the food eaten by the laborers who built the pyramid of Cheops) is "syrmaiE" (Attic syrmaia), which LSJ translates as "purge-plant, a name given to the radish" George Pesely, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee -----Original Message----- From: DLmagistra@aol.com [mailto:DLmagistra@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:42 AM To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: etymology In a message dated 6/22/02 8:52:05 AM, mcmahon@mail.lemoyne.edu writes: << I'm away from (most of) my books, and my question is about the etymology of *raphanes*. Aside from the fact that it should be *raphanis* (= *Raphanus sativus*), does the etymology sound sound right to folks? Can someone comment on it? LSJ gives nothing beyond the basic meaning of "radish." >>I always thought that radish came from the Latin, radix, -icis but I don't really "know" that. .