Νηλίπους

barefoot

Translated by Nick Nicholas23 Sep 2009Vetting: high2 revisions

3 notes · 25 words
[Meaning] one without shoes.1
From privative nê- and lipos ["fat"].2
"She is guiding the old man, often wandering in the wild forest hungry and barefoot".3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νηλίπους· ὁ ἀνυπόδητος. παρὰ τὸ νη στερητικὸν καὶ τὸ λίπος. γερονταγωγεῖ, πολλὰ μὲν κατ' ἀγρίαν ὕλην ἄσιτος νηλίπους τ' ἀλωμένη.

Betacode
*nhli/pous: o( a)nupo/dhtos. para\ to\ nh sterhtiko\n kai\ to\ li/pos. gerontagwgei=, polla\ me\n kat' a)gri/an u(/lhn a)/sitos nhli/pous t' a)lwme/nh.

Notes (3)

  1. 1From the scholia to Sophocles: see n.3 below. ↩
  2. 2The word must indeed involve privative νη-, but λίπος makes no sense. LSJ s.v. cites the more plausible speculation of the scholia to Theocritus, Idylls 4.56, that it derives from h)=liy, "a Doric shoe". ↩
  3. 3Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 348-349 (web address 1). ↩

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ν312ΝηλεύςNeleusν313Νηλήςpitiless, ruthlessν314Νηλίπουςbarefootν315Νηλιτήςnelitesν316Νῆμαthread
Revision history2 revisions · last 9 Jun 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. another note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — Nick Nicholas

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