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Καθᾶραι · to purify (κ 35) · Suda

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Near κ35

κ31you are undoing a knot
κ32once and for all
κ33equipped with, wrapped in
κ34I cleanse, I purify
κ35to purify
κ36offscouring, residue
κ37clearly
κ38purificatory
κ39cleaner

Suda/Κ kappa/κ35

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Καθᾶραι

to purify

Translated by Catharine Roth18 Sep 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

dialects, grammar, and etymology
religion

2 words

Translation

[no gloss]

Greek original · Adler’s text

Καθᾶραι.

Betacode

*kaqa=rai.

Notes

Aorist active infinitive (appearing as a gloss at sigma 736) of kaqai/rw (kappa 44), which would be kaqh=rai in earlier Attic and Ionic. See LSJ s.v.

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κ36Κάθαρμαoffscouring, residue"Aren't you going to waste the offscourings, he said, and go away from us?" Aristophanes says [this]. For the purification of a city they used to kill some adorned [animal], which they called katharma. "And then he…

Neighbouring entries

κ33Καθαπτόςequipped with, wrapped in κ34ΚαθαρίζωI cleanse, I purify κ35Καθᾶραιto purify κ36Κάθαρμαoffscouring, residue κ37Καθαρῶςclearly

Revision history3 revisions · last 9 Mar 2019

9 Mar 2019tweaked note — Catharine Roth
18 Jan 2013another x-ref — David Whitehead
18 Sep 2003x-ref; another keyword — David Whitehead
18 Sep 2003Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Καθᾶραι (Adler number kappa 35), trans. Catharine Roth, 18 Sep 2003. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/35

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗