Πορφυρίων

purple coot, purple gallinule

Translated by David Whitehead28 Feb 2010Vetting: high7 revisions

1 note · 9 words

Translation

[porfuri/wn, genitive] porfuri/wnos.1 A kind of bird, in Aristophanes.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πορφυρίων, πορφυρίωνος· εἶδος ὀρνέου, παρὰ Ἀριστοφάνει.

Betacode
*porfuri/wn, porfuri/wnos: ei)=dos o)rne/ou, para\ *)aristofa/nei. 

Notes (1)

  1. Aristophanes, Birds 553 (web address 1) -- unless it is a proper name there -- and Birds 707, 882, 1249.
  2. 1So too, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. ↩

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Revision history7 revisions · last 15 Oct 2021
  1. Revised — Catharine Roth
  2. expanded note — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. Revised — David Whitehead
  6. another headword; another note — David Whitehead
  7. added link, set status — Catharine Roth
  8. Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

“purple coot, purple gallinule.” Suda On Line. Tr. David Whitehead. 28 February 2010. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/2100>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/pi/2100>.

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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