Ὀργυιαί

fathoms

Translated by Ronald Allen17 Mar 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 24 words
[Meaning] measurements [sc. made by reaching out all the way] with one's own hands.1 Also [sc. attested is the adjective] o)rguiai=os ["one-fathom-long"], [meaning] large.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀργυιαί· τὰ μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων χειρῶν μέτρα. καὶ Ὀργυιαῖος, ὁ μέγας.

Betacode
*)orguiai/: ta\ meta\ tw=n i)di/wn xeirw=n me/tra. kai\ *)orguiai=os, o( me/gas.

Notes (2)

  1. The headword, presumably quoted from somewhere, is a feminine noun in the nominative (and vocative) plural; see generally LSJ s.v. o)/rguia (the length of outstretched arms or about six feet), and already omicron 521, omicron 522. The oxytone (Smyth, 157) headword may be generated by an earlier form, where the accent falls on the antepenult, which is instanced at, for example, Homer, Iliad 23.327 (web address 1).
  2. 1The headword is similarly glossed by ps.-Herodian, Partitiones 102.5, and Hesychius omicron1122; cf. Etymologicum Magnum 629.47-9 (Kallierges) and Orion [Author, Myth], Etymologicum 116.16-8. ↩
  3. 2A cognate of the lemma, this is an adjective in the masculine singular; LSJ s.v. Adler also cites as identical Lexicon Ambrosianum 428. ↩

References


H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956

External resources

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ο521Ὀργυιάfathomο522Ὀργυιωμένοιςspreading out, reaching outο523Ὀργυιαίfathomsο524Ὀρέγεταιhas an appetite [for]ο525Ὀρέγειreaches out
Revision history3 revisions · last 7 Jul 2013
  1. tweaking — David Whitehead
  2. tweaked link — Catharine Roth
  3. tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Ronald Allen

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