Φορμίσκοι
small baskets
Translated by David Whitehead10 Nov 2011Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] small kalathoi.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φορμίσκοι· καλαθίσκοι.
Betacode
*formi/skoi: kalaqi/skoi.
Notes
- This nominative plural has the same or similar glossing in other lexica and grammars, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. All such entries derive from the occurrence of the genitive plural in Plato, Lysis 206E; see the scholia there.
Pollux 1.173 associates the present headword noun with the present glossing noun.
Linked from2 entries
- φ601Φορμηδόνmat-style[Meaning] wickerwork-style. Because mat [means] wickerwork in Thucydides, having the weave cross-wise.
- φ602Φορμηδόνmat-styleThucydides [writes]: "cutting down trees out of Kithairon they were building a construction across on each side in mat-style, positioning it instead of walls, so that the bank of earth not be spread out over a great…
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- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another note — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead