Νεωστί
newly, recently
Translated by Nick Nicholas5 Sep 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] latterly.1
Just as out of the [genitive plural]mega/lwn ["of big ones"] [comes the adverb] mega/lws ["grandly"] and in Attic megalwsti/ ["far and wide"],2 so [there is the sequence] ne/wn ["of new ones"], ne/ws ["newly"], newsti/ . 3 And ou(/tw ti ["somewhat like that"] is similar, even though it is accented recessively.4
Just as out of the [genitive plural]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νεωστί· προσφάτως. ὥσπερ ἐκ τοῦ μεγάλων μεγάλως καὶ Ἀττικῶς μεγαλωστί, οὕτω νέων, νέως, νεωστί. καὶ ἔστιν ὅμοιον τὸ οὕτω τι· εἰ καὶ βαρύνεται ἐκεῖνο.
Betacode
*newsti/: prosfa/tws. w(/sper e)k tou= mega/lwn mega/lws kai\ *)attikw=s megalwsti/, ou(/tw ne/wn, ne/ws, newsti/. kai\ e)/stin o(/moion to\ ou(/tw ti: ei) kai\ baru/netai e)kei=no.
Notes (4)
- 1Similar glossing in other lexica, e.g. Hesychius nu428. ↩
- 2See LSJ s.v.; the adjective occurs in Homer and Sappho, and "Attic" should be understood in its Byzantine sense of "classical". ↩
- 3
*megalwsti/ andnewsti/ are routinely listed together as illustrations of the-t[e]i/ suffix, starting with Apollonius Dyscolus, On Adverbs p. 162 Schneider, citing Tryphon before him. Apollonius identifiednewsti/ , rather thanmegalwsti/ , as "Attic". ↩ - 4More importantly,
ou(/tw ti are two words, and the -ti/ suffix ofnewsti/ is unrelated toti "something". ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 7 Jun 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another note; tweaks — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, more keywords, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Nick Nicholas