Ὀδυνήφατος

pain-killing

Translated by Catharine Roth25 Oct 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

6 words

[Meaning] she who/that which removes pains.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀδυνήφατος· ἡ τὰς ὀδύνας ἀφανίζουσα.

Betacode

*)odunh/fatos: h( ta\s o)du/nas a)fani/zousa.

Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at Photius omicron45 Theodoridis), including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also a scholion on Homer, Iliad 5.401 (where the neuter plural occurs). The present headword itself is apparently quoted from a context where it is feminine -- probably Homer, Iliad 11.846-7 (of a root, feminine accusative singular).
The scholiast perhaps thinks that the second element of the compound is related to fai/nw "I reveal"; LSJ connect it rather with qei/nw "I kill".
cf. omicron 56, omicron 57.

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