Νῶκαρ
slothful, sleepy; coma, lethargy
Translated by Catharine Roth14 Oct 2009Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] one who moves with difficulty.1
From the privativenw and the [verb] skai/rw ["I skip"], as if [to say] nw=skar , one who lacks the strength to skip; or also otherwise2 one [who is] without breath and does not have spirit [kh=r ], just as also nekro/s ["corpse"] [is] one [who is] deprived of spirit [kh=r ], which is soul [yuxh/ ].3
From the privative
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νῶκαρ· ὁ δυσκίνητος. παρὰ τὸ νῶ στερητικὸν καὶ τὸ σκαίρω, οἱονεὶ νῶσκαρ, ὁ μὴ σκαίρειν ἰσχύων· ἢ καὶ ἄλλως ὁ δῆθεν ..... ἄψυχος καὶ μὴ ἔχων κῆρ, καθὰ καὶ νεκρὸς ὁ ἐστερημένος κῆρος, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ψυχῆς.
Betacode
*nw=kar: o( duski/nhtos. para\ to\ nw= sterhtiko\n kai\ to\ skai/rw, oi(onei\ nw=skar, o( mh\ skai/rein i)sxu/wn: h)\ kai\ a)/llws o( dh=qen ..... a)/yuxos kai\ mh\ e)/xwn kh=r, kaqa\ kai\ nekro\s o( e)sterhme/nos kh=ros, o(/per e)sti\n yuxh=s.
Notes (3)
- On the headword see generally LSJ s.v. It is attested as an adjective in lexica and grammars; as a (neuter) noun in Nicander, Theriaca 189.
According to Chantraine (citing Benveniste), the word is generally considered to be an archaic neuter noun in-ar (likeo)/nar ) with the vocalism o, related tone/kus andnekro/s . He suggests that the o may originally have been short, and the lengthened vowel may have been influenced bykw=ma . - 1Same glossing in ps.-Herodian 93 and, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The rest of the entry is found only in the margin of Suda ms M. ↩
- 2Adler initially stated that 6-7 letters are lost at this point, but in her consolidated addenda and corrigenda she fills them with
o( dh=qen , translated here. ↩ - 3Similar material in the Etymologicum Magnum (599.48) and Herodian. ↩
References
E. Benveniste, Origines de la formation des noms en indo-européen (Paris 1948) 18
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, ed. 2 (Paris 2009) 714
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, ed. 2 (Paris 2009) 714
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- Translated — Catharine Roth