Skip to content

Search the Suda

Browse Topics Random About

The Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient world, in English and Greek.

Read

Browse Α–Ω
Topics
Random entry

Project

About & credits
Report an error
Original SOL ↗

Follow

@ReadSuda
@readsuda.org

A new reader for the Suda On Line translation, made by 200+ volunteer translators and editors. Greek text after Adler’s edition. Translations © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA.

Free · non-commercial · no ads · no accounts[email protected]Maintained with ❤️ by Rick Lithan

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Γέρδιος · gerdios (γ 190) · Suda

Letters

Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near γ190

γ186prerogative, privilege, recompense
γ187over-ripe
γ188Gergesaean
γ189Gergêthes
γ190gerdios
γ191venerable woman
γ192venerable
γ193to revere
γ194Geraistos, Geraestus

Suda/Γ gamma/γ190

← Previous entry,γ189 Next entry,γ191 →

Γέρδιος

gerdios

Translated by Jennifer Benedict24 Jun 2002Vetting: high4 revisions

daily life
definition
dialects, grammar, and etymology
trade and manufacture
women

1 note · 12 words

Translation

[Meaning a] weaver.¹
And among us [the feminine] gerdia [is also attested].²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Γέρδιος· ὑφάντης. καὶ παρ' ἡμῖν ἡ γερδία.

Betacode

*ge/rdios: u(fa/nths. kai\ par' h(mi=n h( gerdi/a.

Notes (1)

[1] Attested (as gerdios or gerdis) in inscriptions and legal texts, besides the lexica: see LSJ s.v.
2Post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum 228.40 has the headword itself as a feminine.

Neighbouring entries

γ188ΓεργεσαῖοςGergesaean γ189ΓέργηθεςGergêthes γ190Γέρδιοςgerdios γ191Γεραιάvenerable woman γ192Γεραιόςvenerable

Revision history4 revisions · last 27 Sep 2015

27 Sep 2015Revised — David Whitehead
6 Jun 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
27 Jun 2002added note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
26 Jun 2002added note and keywords — Catharine Roth
24 Jun 2002Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Γέρδιος (Adler number gamma 190), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 24 Jun 2002. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/gamma/190

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