Λαχανίζεσθαι

to vegetable-gather

Translated by Oliver Phillips ✝22 Sep 2004Vetting: high5 revisions

12 words

Meaning to collect vegetables; [sc. formed] like to wood-gather and to kindling-gather.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λαχανίζεσθαι· ἀντὶ τοῦ λάχανα συλλέγειν· ὡς ξυλίζεσθαι καὶ φρυγανίζεσθαι.

Betacode

*laxani/zesqai: a)nti\ tou= la/xana sulle/gein: w(s culi/zesqai kai\ frugani/zesqai.

Same entry in Photius, Lexicon lambda124 Theodoridis; cf. Etymologicum Magnum 558.14. This middle voice of the verb laxani/zein is otherwise unattested.
Greek la/xanon, vegetable (lambda 164), yields a number of compounds (cf. lambda 160, lambda 161, lambda 163), more than English. English 'graze', originally related to 'grass', is an example of the process, but it is really impossible to illustrate the Greek compounds, each a single word, in English. For kindling see phi 749.

Revision history5 revisions · last 6 Apr 2020

6 Apr 2020another keyword — Catharine Roth
16 May 2016coding — David Whitehead
13 Sep 2013deleted link — Catharine Roth
3 Apr 2013tweaking; raised status — David Whitehead
23 Sep 2004modified headword and tr, for greater closeness to the Greek; modified note — David Whitehead
22 Sep 2004Translated — Oliver Phillips ✝