Cantorium

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Cantorium scripsit Stephanus pro centaurea.


Translation:

Stephanus writes Cantorium for centaurea {"centaury"}.


Commentary:

Stephanus in his Breviarium writes: Kentauriõ … cantoriũ [[1]].

Greek κενταύρ(ε)ιον /kentaúr(e)ion/ {"centaury"} is adopted into Arabic as ﻗﻨﻄﻮﺭﻳﻮﻥ /qanṭūriyūn/.

Cf. Siggel (1950: 61): ﻗﻨﻄﺮﻳﻮﻥ /qanṭariyūn/, ﻗﻨﻄﻮﺭﻳﻮﻥ /qanṭūriyūn/; 1) /al-kabīr/ {i.e. "greater"}: e. Centaurea (Comp.) {i.e. "a Centaurea species"} ...; 2) aṣ-ṣaġīr {"lesser"}: Gentiana Centaurea, Tausendgüldenkraut {i.e. "common century"}.

The word reached Arabic most likely through Syriac, cf. Gignoux (2011: 79): qnṭwrywn «centaurée».

WilfGunther 21:01, 13 March 2015 (UTC)


See also: Centaurea, Kanturion, Lepton (2), Narcha (2)

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