Νότιος
damp
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Translation
[Meaning] moist.1
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]no/tios i(drw/s ["damp sweat"], [meaning] moist.2
The Etymologicum Magnum, in which it is transmitted thatnw=ta ["backs"] or yu/an ["loin-muscle"] or yu- [...] or y- [...] with a diphthong, yo/a with a single o where instead of r(w=a [sc. there is] r(o/a , [sc. and likewise not] xrw=a [but] xro/a , since, he says, into this part the sweat flows; he wants, needless to say, the sense "that down the back" [...]; thus "notios sweat was pouring down him"; the etymologist is also saying that out of the [noun] noti/s ["dampness"], by lengthening of the omicron into omega, come both o( nw=tos and ta\ nw=ta .3
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]
The Etymologicum Magnum, in which it is transmitted that
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νότιος· ὑγρός. καὶ Νότιος ἱδρώς, ὁ ὑγρός. τὸ μέγα Ἐτυμολογικόν, ἐν ᾧ φέρεται, ὅτι νῶτος ἢ ψοιὰν ἢ ψύα ἢ ψ.. ὀξυτόνως διὰ τῆς οι διφθόγγου, ἢ ψόα διὰ μόνου τοῦ ο κατὰ τὸ ῥοῖα, ῥόα, χροῖα, χρόα, ἐπεί, φησί, εἰς τοῦτο τὸ μέρος ὁ ἱδρὼς καταρρεῖ· βούλεται ν ὅτι οὐ ἱδρῶτα νοεῖν τὸν κατὰ τοῦ νώτου φερόμενον καὶ ἐν τῷ κατὰ δὲ νότιος ῥέεν ἱδρὼς ὃ λέγει ὁ ἐτυμολογῶν καὶ ὅτι ἐκ τῆς νοτίδος ἐκτάσει τοῦ ο εἰς ω καὶ ὁ νῶτος καὶ τὰ νῶτα γίνονται.
Betacode
*no/tios: u(gro/s. kai\ *no/tios i(drw/s, o( u(gro/s. to\ me/ga *)etumologiko/n, e)n w(=| fe/retai, o(/ti nw=tos h)\ yoia\n h)\ yu/a h)\ y.. o)cuto/nws dia\ th=s oi difqo/ggou, h)\ yo/a dia\ mo/nou tou= o kata\ to\ r(oi=a, r(o/a, xroi=a, xro/a, e)pei/, fhsi/, ei)s tou=to to\ me/ros o( i(drw\s katarrei=: bou/letai n o(/ti ou) i(drw=ta noei=n to\n kata\ tou= nw/tou fero/menon kai\ e)n tw=| kata\ de\ no/tios r(e/en i(drw\s o(\ le/gei o( e)tumologw=n kai\ o(/ti e)k th=s noti/dos e)kta/sei tou= o ei)s w kai\ o( nw=tos kai\ ta\ nw=ta gi/nontai.
Notes (3)
- cf, nu 506.
- 1Likewise in other lexica: references at Photius nu268 Theodoridis; and see further, next note. ↩
- 2Homer, Iliad 11.811:
kata\ de\ no/tios r(e/en i(drw/s (quoted later in the entry); cf. the scholia there. ↩ - 3Adler's note here says 'cf. Etym.Magn. 607.46', but the comparison is tangential. In the Suda this section of the entry is a marginal addition, 'miserably corrupted' (Adler), in ms M. The present translation of it translates the on-line text, which incorporates changes proffered by Adler in her consolidated addenda and corrigenda. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 3 Feb 2014
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- supplemented translation, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead