Προσαίτης
beggar, beggar-man
Translated by William Hutton18 Aug 2013Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προσαίτης· ὁ ἐπαίτης. Προσαῖτις δὲ θηλυκὸν διὰ τοῦ ι.
Betacode
*prosai/ths: o( e)pai/ths. *prosai=tis de\ qhluko\n dia\ tou= i.
Notes (2)
- 1cf. mu 751; ps,-Herodian, Epimerismi 166; Photius, Lexicon pi1496 Theodoridis (s.v.
ptwxo/s ). ↩ - 2This feminine variant of the headword is attested only in later Greek; cf. lambda 147. It differs from the masculine headword only in the quality of the accent and in the vowel of the final syllable: iota instead of eta. The two words would have been homophonous in later Greek. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 26 Nov 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- tweaks — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton