Ῥοιά

pomegranate

Translated by Catharine Roth11 Sep 2010Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 9 words
[Meaning] a small pomegranate.1
It is also called r(oa/.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ῥοιά· τὸ ῥοΐδιον. λέγεται καὶ Ῥοά.

Betacode
*(roia/: to\ r(oi/+dion. le/getai kai\ *(roa/.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Similar glosses in ps.-Herodian and, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. (One might have expected the headword and the gloss, its diminutive, to be reversed.) ↩
  2. 2cf. e.g. rho 191. (This addendum is lacking, Adler reports, in mss AFV.) ↩

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ρ270Ῥωχμόςcleft, fissure, gullyρ271Ῥώψbushρ272Ῥοιάpomegranateρ273Ῥοίακεςrhoiakesρ274Ῥοιβδεῖνto gulp
Revision history5 revisions · last 17 Jan 2022
  1. added note number — Catharine Roth
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
  5. expanded n.2; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — Catharine Roth

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