Κόθουρος
dock-tailed, stingless
Translated by Catharine Roth30 Dec 2008Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] one hiding [sc. a sting].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κόθουρος· ὁ κρύπτων.
Betacode
*ko/qouros: o( kru/ptwn.
Notes
- The headword famously occurs in the dative plural, of drone bees, in Hesiod, Works and Days 304 (web address 1), later quoted by Plato, Laws 901A and elsewhere.
Comparable entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (1228). See also kappa 2176.