Βακάντιβος

loiterer

Translated by Jennifer Benedict13 Apr 2002Vetting: high8 revisions

11 words

[Meaning an] idler, one who does not mind his own business.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Βακάντιβος· σχολαστὴς, μὴ παραμένων τῷ πράγματι αὐτοῦ.

Betacode

*baka/ntibos: sxolasth\s, mh\ parame/nwn tw=| pra/gmati au)tou=.

Transliteration of Latin vacantivus; cf. beta 43. Same gloss in Photius (Lexicon beta28). The plural baka/ntiboi occurs in Synesius' Epistle 66, characterized by the writer as a foreign ("slightly barbarous") word.