Κόρυζα
snot
Translated by Nick Nicholas9 Feb 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Among Attic-speakers mucus is called [snot].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κόρυζα παρ' Ἀττικοῖς ἡ μύξα λέγεται.
Betacode
*ko/ruza par' *)attikoi=s h( mu/ca le/getai.
Notes
- See also kappa 2119. The term is routinely used by Galen, Paul of Aegina, and other late medical authors. Pollux 2.78 notes it is Attic, and the term is glossed in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon s.v.
koruza=n . Hesychius glosses it, but also uses it as a gloss s.v.mu/ca, te/gea, te/nea , and the scholia on Plato, Republic 343A actually claim it iskata/rrous in Attic.
Linked from2 entries
- κ2119ΚόρυζαsnotAlso [sc. attested is the participle] "snivelling", [meaning] someone who has become stupid; or discharging mucus. Also [sc. attested is] "[him] snivelling".
- μ1418Μύξαsnot[Meaning] the substance excreted of [= from] the head. Hence also [sc. comes the term] mucwth/r ["nostril"], the part of the body. Muxa is also a word for the [wick] of a lamp. In the Epigrams: "to the god of Kanopos…
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Revision history4 revisions · last 13 Mar 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- typo — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics, keywords, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Nick Nicholas