Ἀκοίτης

bedfellow, husband

Translated by Catharine Roth5 Apr 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 24 words

Translation

In the masculine gender [meaning] the husband. But a)/koitis in the feminine [means] the wife.1 And the [accusative] plural is ta\s a)koi/tis ["the wives"].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀκοίτης· ἀρσενικῶς ὁ ἀνήρ. Ἄκοιτις δὲ θηλυκῶς, ἡ γυνή. καὶ τὸ πληθυντικὸν τὰς ἀκοίτις.

Betacode
*)akoi/ths: a)rsenikw=s o( a)nh/r. *)/akoitis de\ qhlukw=s, h( gunh/. kai\ to\ plhquntiko\n ta\s a)koi/tis.  

Notes (2)

  1. Both of these are poetical words, occurring in epic, lyric, and tragedy.
  2. 1Likewise, according to Adler, in two entries in the Ambrosian Lexicon (857, 996); and cf. Etymologicum Magnum 50.7-9. ↩
  3. 2(Quoted, in all probability, from its only appearance in Homer: Odyssey 10.7.) With long iota in the ending (from *-ins). ↩

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Revision history7 revisions · last 23 May 2015
  1. another note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  2. augmented n.2 — David Whitehead
  3. cosmetics, keyword — Catharine Roth
  4. Revised — Catharine Roth
  5. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Revised — Ross Scaife ✝
  7. added keyword — Ross Scaife ✝
  8. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“bedfellow, husband.” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 5 April 2000. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/1040>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/alpha/1040>.

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, Ross Scaife ✝, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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