Κορώνη

shearwater, crow, something hooked (like a crow bill), tip, glans

Translated by Nick Nicholas27 Jan 2009Vetting: high2 revisions

1 note · 28 words

[The word] means various things; and [sc. one of them is] the tip of the pudendum.
"Someone thought that his own pudendum was hairy up to its tip."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κορώνη· διάφορα σημαίνει· καὶ τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ αἰδοίου. ἔδοξέ τις τὸ αἰδοῖον αὑτοῦ ἄχρι τῆς κορώνης τετριχῶσθαι.

Betacode

*korw/nh: dia/fora shmai/nei: kai\ to\ a)/kron tou= ai)doi/ou. e)/doce/ tis to\ ai)doi=on au(tou= a)/xri th=s korw/nhs tetrixw=sqai.

Notes (1)

Besides kappa 2106 (below), cf. also kappa 2103.
1Artemidorus 5.65: a dream interpretation, in which a passive homosexual's glans grows hairy out of disuse. The particular meaning "glans" for "tip" is not recorded in LSJ, but cf. J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 20. For another kind of "tip" see kappa 2106. ↩

Linked from1 entry

κ2103Κορώνεωςshearwater-coloured, crow-coloured, black[sc. Grammatically] like fia/lews. It is a kind of fig-tree. They also call it raven-coloured: for its fruit looks like a raven in colour.

Neighbouring entries

κ2103Κορώνεωςshearwater-coloured, crow-coloured, black κ2104ΚορώνειαKoroneia, Coroneia κ2105Κορώνηshearwater, crow, something hooked (like a crow bill), tip, glans κ2106Κορώνηνtip κ2107Κορώνη τὸν σκορπίονa crow [caught] the scorpion

Revision history2 revisions · last 13 Mar 2013

13 Mar 2013Revised — David Whitehead
27 Jan 2009another x-ref; addendum to n.1; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
27 Jan 2009Translated — Nick Nicholas