Ὁμόσφυρος

ankle-sharer, walking companion

Translated by Catharine Roth2 Jan 2010Vetting: high2 revisions

9 words

[Meaning] one who makes a journey together [with someone].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὁμόσφυρος· ὁ ἐν ταὐτῷ τὴν πορείαν ποιούμενος.

Betacode

*(omo/sfuros: o( e)n tau)tw=| th\n porei/an poiou/menos.

Attested only in grammarians and lexicography. Hesychius omicron809-810 offers the glosses 'sister' and (for the plural) 'fellow-travelers'; the Etymologicum Gudianum and the Etymologicum Magnum have 'brother'.
For the etymology cf. sigma 1761.

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