Διακωχή

cessation

Translated by Craig Gibson4 Jul 2003Vetting: high8 revisions

3 words

[Meaning an] intermission.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Διακωχή· διάλειψις.

Betacode

*diakwxh/: dia/leiyis.

Likewise in other lexica. From the scholia to Thucydides 3.87.1 (web address 1), where the headword occurs (of the respite between the first and second outbreaks of plague in Athens in the 420s BCE). Elsewhere the headword -- better spelled diokwxh/ as at delta 1157 -- can mean an armistice or cease-fire.
cf. pi 689.