Φίτυ

scion, shoot

Translated by Catharine Roth25 Oct 2011Vetting: high2 revisions

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Aristophanes [writes]: "for the shoot will sprout early."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φίτυ· Ἀριστοφάνης· τὸ γὰρ φίτυ πρῷον φύσει.

Betacode

*fi/tu: *)aristofa/nhs: to\ ga\r fi/tu prw=|on fu/sei.

Notes (1)

The unglossed headword, a neuter noun (and a poetic variant of fi/tuma, according to LSJ), is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
cf. generally phi 474.
1Aristophanes, Peace 1163-4 (a choral lyric passage), on Lemnian vines. ↩

Linked from1 entry

φ474Φιτῦσαιto sow, to plant[Meaning] to beget. [He] applies it to the father, but to a mother not here; instead, gennh=sai ["to beget"] [sc. is said also of a mother]. And fitu/ontos ["of a sower"] similarly [is said] of the begetter. But also…

Neighbouring entries

φ471Φίσκοςfiscus φ472Φιτρῶνof boles, of logs φ473Φίτυscion, shoot φ474Φιτῦσαιto sow, to plant φ475Φθάνειanticipates, steals a march on

Revision history2 revisions · last 12 Dec 2013

12 Dec 2013Revised — David Whitehead
25 Oct 2011augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
25 Oct 2011Translated — Catharine Roth