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- κ414Κάρπιμος τόποςfruitful placeThe headword phrase is presumably quoted from somewhere; cf. Etymologicum Magnum 12.36-7.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1759Κλείσιονlock-up, outhouse, shedSimilarly in Etymologicum Magnum 520.17-18. (But cf. also kappa 1815?)Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1320ΚενθίππηKenthippeCallimachus, Hecale fr.279. According to Etymologicum Magnum 503.34-35, it was a 'place of Argos [Myth, Place]', named from Bellerophon having spurred on [kentei=n] Pegasus there.Matched in noteshighshort
- α1394Ἁλωρῆταιsalt-watchers… in entries in the Etymologicum Genuinum (alpha566) and the Etymologicum Magnum (74.28-30), where it is said to be Lycian.Matched in noteshighshort
- α1156ἈλείπηςAleipes, Non-LackingMore fully in Etymologicum Magnum 60.48-50: "a spring in Ephesos, so called from its never providing too little or too much, whether in winter or summer. Methodios [sc. says this]". For Ephesos cf. epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2652ΚύκλωπεςKyklopes, Cyclopes… lexica. [2] Presumably one-eyed. [3] In Libya, according to Etymologicum Magnum 544.10.Matched in noteshighshort
- αι2Αἶαearth… glossed with a more common equivalent; cf. Hesychius alpha1654, Etymologicum Magnum 27.8-10, and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.850, 13.4. See LSJ entry at web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
- γ40ΓάλλοςGallos, Galluscf. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. and (post-Suda) Etymologicum Magnum 220.25-6, both specifying Phrygia. In fact, at least two rivers of this name are known (in different parts of present-day Turkey): one in Bithynia, and …Matched in noteshighshort
- χ198Χεράδοςshinglecf. Hesychius, Etymologicum Magnum 808.42, etc. From the A scholia to Homer, Iliad 21.319 (where the headword appears: web address 1 below). In the scholia, as well as Hesychius and the Lexica Segueriana, kai\ …Matched in noteshighshort
- η198ἨλέκτραElektra, Electra… Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes. [2] cf. Etymologicum Magnum 425.27.Matched in noteshighshort
- ι89ἼδαςIdas… being a son of Poseidon). [2] More intelligibly in Etymologicum Magnum 465.9-10: Idas' name comes from Mt Ida, because he, like it, is large.Matched in noteshighshort
- αι70ΑἰγοφάγοςGoat-eaterEpithet of Zeus, Nicander fr. 99 (Etymologicum Magnum 27.51); of Hera at Sparta, Pausanias 3.15.9 (web address 1) and Hesychius alpha1737. J.G. Frazer on the Pausanias passage: 'whenever a deity is called the eater …Matched in noteshighshort
- χ303Χιλήfodder… Hesychius, Lexicum Ambrosianum 247 (according to Adler), Etymologicum Genuinum, Etymologicum Magnum 811.47. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.25 (web address 1 below). [2] Herodotus 4.140.3 (web address 2). The text of Herodotus reads sfete/rhs for the …Matched in noteshighmedium
- δ808Διαυλωνίζεινto go through a channel… Adler, a comparable one in the Ambrosian Lexicon. Post-Suda, Etymologicium Magnum 743.19-20 relates it specifically to winds; and see LSJ s.v. For the etymology cf. generally alpha 4449.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε891ἙλώδηςmarshyHere an adjective is modified by a noun. Contrast Etymologicum Magnum 332.52-4: *(/elos. shmai/nei o)/noma po/lews *lakwnikh=s... shmai/nei kai\ to\n u(gro\n kai\ su/mfuton to/pon. Adler also cites the unedited Ambrosian Lexicon 518 and 683 …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1805Κλιμακόεσσανstepped, having steps… Iliad passage, in Nonnus' Dionysiaca 18.56, and in the Etymologicum Magnum s.v. *iqw/mh.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1560Κηφηῒς γῆKephean land… more fully than the Suda in ps.-Zonaras and in Etymologicum Magnum 512.14-15.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2777Ἐπιχθονίωνof land-bound… have the present gloss; see also chi 329). cf. Etymologicum Magnum 367.29.Matched in noteshighshort
- μ358Μεγαλεῖον μύρονMegaleian perfumecf. Etymologicum Magnum 574.47-48. But in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.690F (15.42 Kaibel) and elsewhere, the name is Megallos and his invention, accordingly, Megalleion: see LSJ s.v. (There was also a dispute about whether he was …Matched in noteshighshort
- α1196Ἁλίπεδονsalt-flat… order here. See also alpha 1240. Similar material in Etymologicum Magnum 64.45-47. See also alpha 1240.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε21Ἔβασονallow!… Similar but fuller one in Hesychius (epsilon65), ps.-Zonaras, and Etymologicum Magnum 308.27-30, all identifying the headword form of this aorist imperative of e)a/w as one used by 'Syracusans and Spartans', i.e. Doric. Its beta …Matched in noteshighshort
- αι239Αἰξωνεύεσθαιto be an Aixonian, to play the Aixonian… the phrase "to be an Aixonian" occurs; Hesychius s.v.; Etymologicum Magnum 36.57. [1] cf. alphaiota 240, alphaiota 241. [2] See alphaiota 242.Matched in noteshighshort
- ν251Νέποδεςnepodes… the corresponding scholia, and also Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, Hesychius, Etymologicum Magnum and LSJ s.v. (the last at web address 2). The word is also glossed in nu 250 as a synonym for fishes. [1] …Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3252Ἐσχατιάfrontier… Photius, Lexicon epsilon2048; and cf. Hesychius epsilon6453 and 6454, Etymologicum Magnum 384.27-8. [2] Not in the preserved literature, and not registered by LSJ. Adler reports no manuscript variants for h( eu)te/leia, but she does …Matched in noteshighshort
- μ251Μᾶσσονlonger… mu 254. Similarly glossed in Hesychius mu342 and the Etymologicum Magnum, as well as a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 8.203. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr.238.22-23 Pfeiffer; quoted again at upsilon 75. See also alphaiota 17.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1630Κιννάμωμονcinnamon, cassiaSimilar entry in the Etymologicum Magnum 514.3-5: Herodotus (below) is quoted, with a different interpretation of the Ionic relative pronoun ta\ (see Smyth §338D3) and variation between single and double nu in "cinnamon" (but …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2318Κράμβηcabbage… below, at n.5); also in the Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum Magnum; kora/mbh and kora/mblh are made up from ko/rh "pupil" and a)mblu/nw "make (something) dull". See the LSJ entry for kra/mbh at web address …Matched in noteshighmedium
- μ714Μετανάστηςwanderer… Homeric Lexicon, the Synagoge, Photius (mu325 Theodoridis), and the Etymologicum Magnum. The headword noun occurs in Homer, Iliad 9.648 (web address 1) and 16.59 (web address 2: "just like a metana/sths without honour"); and …Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2353Ἐπὶ κάρhead-first, head-foremost… in any event Apollonius, Homeric Lexicon 73.19; Hesychius epsilon4828; Etymologicum Magnum 360.8; and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 16.392, where the quotation given, including the headword, occurs in a simile about a storm (web …Matched in noteshighshort
- ν93ΝαίεθοςNaiethos, Neaithos, Neaethus… 921. For this material cf. the scholia thereto, and Etymologicum Magnum 598.38-45.Matched in noteshighshort