Μασθὸς
breast
Translated by Catharine Roth6 May 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μασθὸς καὶ Μαστός· κυρίως ἐπὶ γυναικός, καταχρηστικῶς δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ ἀνδρός. τὸ μὲν μασθὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ θῶ, τὸ θηλάζω· τὸ δὲ μαστὸς διὰ τὸ μεστὸς εἶναι γάλακτος. καὶ ζήτει ἐν τῷ μαζός.
Betacode
*masqo\s kai\ *masto/s: kuri/ws e)pi\ gunaiko/s, kataxrhstikw=s de\ kai\ e)pi\ a)ndro/s. to\ me\n masqo\s a)po\ tou= qw=, to\ qhla/zw: to\ de\ masto\s dia\ to\ mesto\s ei)=nai ga/laktos. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| mazo/s.
Notes (2)
- 1No verb
qw= meaning "I nurse" is attested; but there was a theory, especially promoted by Philoxenos of Alexandria (phi 394), that the Greek vocabulary could be derived from a core of monosyllabic verbs, so this form can be regarded as hypothetical. See Dickey 3.1.10 (p. 85). ↩ - 2mu 39: see note there. ↩
References
Dickey, Eleanor. Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises, from Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period. American Philological Association Classical Resource Series. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Linked from3 entries
- μ39ΜαζόςbreastProperly [used] in reference to a man. And Homer [writes]: "he brought the bowstring to his breast, and the iron [point] to the bow." But by misapplication [the word is used] also in reference to a woman.
- π1363ΠερῶI traverse[perw=] perai/w, peraiw=. Like mw= ["I seek"], mai/w, maiw=.
- φ394ΦιλόξενοςPhiloxenus, PhiloxenosOf Alexandria. Grammarian. He was a sophist in Rome. [He wrote] On Monosyllabic Verbs; On the Critical Signs in the Iliad; On -mi Verbs; On Reduplication; On Metres; On the Syracusan Dialect; On Hellenism (6 books); On…
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