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Ἐκτομίας · castrated (man) (ε 662) · Suda

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Near ε662

ε658founded
ε659will pay off
ε660from babies, from tots
ε661having wound off
ε662castrated (man)
ε663out-of-the-way (things)
ε664distant (places), foreign (places)
ε665I avoid, I shun
ε666alien, outlandish; away from a place

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε662

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Ἐκτομίας

castrated (man)

Translated by Catharine Roth16 Jan 2007Vetting: high3 revisions

definition
gender and sexuality
historiography
medicine

3 words

Translation

[Meaning a] eunuch.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐκτομίας· εὐνοῦχος.

Betacode

*)ektomi/as: eu)nou=xos.

Notes

Likewise in Hesychius and other lexica. The headword is attested from Herodotus onwards.
cf. alpha 3364, iota 242, iota 494, sigma 896.

Linked from1 entry

ε1474Ἐντομίαςcastrated (man)[Meaning] a eunuch. But qladi/as [is] he who has been crushed [sc. in the testicles].

Neighbouring entries

ε660Ἐκ τιτυννῶνfrom babies, from tots ε661Ἐκτολυπεύσαςhaving wound off ε662Ἐκτομίαςcastrated (man)ε663Ἔκτοπαout-of-the-way (things)ε664Ἐκτόπιαdistant (places), foreign (places)

Revision history3 revisions · last 11 Dec 2015

11 Dec 2015tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
9 Aug 2012Revised — David Whitehead
16 Jan 2007x-refs — David Whitehead
16 Jan 2007Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐκτομίας (Adler number epsilon 662), trans. Catharine Roth, 16 Jan 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/662

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗