Νοσοκομεῖον

infirmary, hospital

Translated by Ronald Allen20 Oct 2009Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 40 words
[Meaning] the guest-chamber.1
In order for it to mean to have a disease [no/sos], instead of a condition [pa/qos] or a habit [e)/qos]: the [feminine noun] no/sos being understood rather than any particular neuter [noun such as pa/qos or e)/qos].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νοσοκομεῖον· ὁ ξενών. ἵνα ᾖ τὸ νόσον ἔχειν, ἀντὶ τοῦ πάθος ἢ ἔθος τι ἔχειν· νοουμένης τῆς νόσου ἀντὶ οὐδετέρου τοῦδέ τινος.

Betacode
*nosokomei=on: o( cenw/n. i(/na h)=| to\ no/son e)/xein, a)nti\ tou= pa/qos h)\ e)/qos ti e)/xein: nooume/nhs th=s no/sou a)nti\ ou)dete/rou tou=de/ tinos.

Notes (2)

  1. The headword is a neuter noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see LSJ s.v. Only in late antiquity did it acquire the sense of guest quarters: see e.g. Justinian, Novellae 582.33 (late C5), where it occurs (among other instances) together with the present gloss.
    For the lemma, Adler also cites the unpublished Ambrosian Lexicon (348).
  2. 1The gloss is a masculine noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see LSJ s.v. The headword is identically glossed at ps.-Zonaras 1407.6. ↩
  3. 2In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that this additional remark (which seems more relevant to nu 494) occurs only in the margins of mss MB. ↩

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Neighbouring entries

ν491ΝοσηλεύωI tend to [someone] in illnessν492Νοσηλείαcare of the ill, nursingν493Νοσοκομεῖονinfirmary, hospitalν494Νόσον ἔχεινto have a diseaseν495Νόσοςillness, disease, sickness
Revision history5 revisions · last 23 Nov 2020
  1. tweaked note — Catharine Roth
  2. cosmetic — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
  5. tweaked translation, added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — Ronald Allen

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