Κολοβόρριν

snub-nosed

Translated by Nick Nicholas5 Jan 2009Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 17 words

Translation

[Meaning he who/one which is] small-nosed.1 Also [sc. attested is the related neuter noun] kolobômata ["cut-off parts"].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κολοβόρριν· ὁ μικρόρριν. καὶ Κολοβώματα.

Betacode
*kolobo/rrin: o( mikro/rrin. kai\ *kolobw/mata. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1The headword noun is quoted from Leviticus 21.18 LXX: "for whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose". ↩
  2. 2cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics 1024a: "because the part lost by mutilation is never equal to the remainder". Normally the word referred to body parts, as glossed in ps.-Galen, Definitiones Medicae sect 388: "kolo/bwma is the cutting off of a part from somewhere in the body", or Oribasius, Collectiones Medicae 45.25.1, citing Antyllus: "Now a kolo/bwma is the absence of a part or some skin covering the body". ↩

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  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. cosmetics, keyword, status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — Nick Nicholas

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