Κνῖσα
savor, steam
Translated by Catharine Roth16 Dec 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κνῖσα· ἡ ἀναθυμίασις τῶν θυομένων τοῖς εἰδώλοις. καὶ Κνισάριον, τὸ μικρὸν λίπος. καὶ Κνίσεσιν, ἀναθυμιάσεσιν.
Betacode
*kni=sa: h( a)naqumi/asis tw=n quome/nwn toi=s ei)dw/lois. kai\ *knisa/rion, to\ mikro\n li/pos. kai\ *kni/sesin, a)naqumia/sesin.
Notes (3)
- The headword (for which cf. kappa 1877), a feminine noun, is the Attic form of epic
kni/sh ; see LSJ s.v. Its appearance here in the nominative singular makes its source hard to identify; perhaps Aristophanes, Birds 1517, though it could simply be paradigmatic; and see in any event next note. - 1Adler suggests that this glossing phrase, for which there is no exact parallel, comes from a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus. ↩
- 2Likewise in the Ambrosian Lexicon, according to Adler; see also Etymologicum Magnum 522.26. ↩
- 3Dative plural of the neuter noun
kni=sos , with same glossing in other lexica (see the references at Photius kappa829 Theodoridis); evidently quoted from somewhere. ↩
Linked from2 entries
- κ1877Κνίσηςof savor, of steam[Meaning] of fat, of rising vapor. "As the steam became distributed and fell upon [him], [he] asked for [some] of the meat."
- μ471Μέλδοντεςmelting down[Meaning they who are] dissolving, boiling. "Melting down oxen's entrails," that is boiling [them]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase], "[one who is] melting down (meldo/menos) fats." Meaning melting (me/ldwn) the fats.
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- Translated — Catharine Roth