Κείρει
devours, tears
Translated by Nick Nicholas13 Nov 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] eats, eats up.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κείρει· ἐσθίει, κατεσθίει.
Betacode
*kei/rei: e)sqi/ei, katesqi/ei.
Notes
- The verb
kei/rw literally is "to crop, to cut down"; the sense "devour" is listed in LSJ s.v. III.1, for Homer, Iliad 11.560 (with the formkei/rei , as here) and 21.204, Odyssey 11.578.
The entry is the same in Photius, Lexicon kappa520 Theodoridis and elsewhere; the glosses differ in Hesychius and the scholiasts. See also kappa 1420.