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961
Διεσμιλευμένον
polished-off
= Synagoge delta267, Photius delta552 Theodoridis, Etymologicum
Magnum
273.53. The headword is perfect middle/passive participle, neuter nominative/accusative or masculine accusative singular, of diasmileu/w; literally 'polish off with a chisel'. [1] The pertinence of this …
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1461
Ἔντερον
intestine
… is also offered in entries on e)/gkata ('innards') in Etymologicum
Magnum
310.9 and Etymologicum Gudianum 394.19. [2] Another etymology, as if e)/nteron were a combination of words for 'within' (e)nto/s) and 'flow' (r(ei=n). Also …
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2498
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on a razor
… 10.173 (web address 1), a passage cited by the Etymologicum
Magnum
in its entry on e)pi\ curou= (see n. 2 below). See also xi 162. [1] This gloss is shared by Hesychius epsilon5023, which …
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1513
Κηλόνειον
swipe, swing-beam
… ps.-Zonaras, Gennadius Scholarius' Grammar, the Etymologicum Gudianum and the Etymologicum
Magnum.
In ps.-Zonaras: "But khlo/neion is a crane: Spelled with a short (omicron) and a diphthong (ei). ... a piece of wood tilting backwards …
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446
Ἀδέψητον
untanned, undressed
Etymologicum
Magnum
16.35 has a longer version of the same entry; Apollonius (Homeric Lexicon) and Hesychius the same headword but with different glossing. The headword itself, neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, is doubtless …
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3961
Ἄρκτος
bear
[1] Likewise, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
144.18. The constellation (cf. under alpha 4239) is "ever-moving" because it does not set but remains above the horizon (in the relevant latitudes). [2] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., …
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18
Αἰγανέα
hunting-spear
… the scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.774, Hesychius s.v. ai)gane/as, Etymologicum
Magnum
28.30. For the dubious addition 'entirely of iron' (a single word in the Greek) cf. zeta 97. [2] Greek Anthology 6.57.3-4 (Paul the …
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106
Αἰθάλη
soot
… Same or similar glossing in other lexica. [2] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
33.21. [3] Quotation unidentifiable, but cf. delta 791, delta 792, kappa 2036, sigma 1023.
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β
9
Βαβύλας
Babylas
… phlo/s (babyas: mire, clay). A similar entry, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
186.1 probably identifies this as a dialect word: baki/as [babu/kas: ms M]: bo/rboros, phlo/s, u(po\ *taranti/nwn (bakias [or babykas]: mire, clay, in Tarantine …
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194
Βαῦνος
furnace
… derivation of banausos from baunos is given in the Etymologicum
Magnum
187.38. [3] This extra observation is missing, Adler reports, from some manuscripts.
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25
Γαλεάγρα
weasel-trap, iron-maiden
… (and cf. Lexica Segueriana, Glossae rhetoricae 227.33, Photius gamma10, Etymologicum
Magnum
220.27). More frequently the animal trapped and/or held was human, as here. See note 1 below for reference to examples. Hermogenes, On forms …
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208
Δελφίς
dolphin
[1] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
255.25 (plurals). [2] Aristophanes, Knights 761-762 (web address 1), followed by comment from the scholia there. See further below. [3] Thucydides 7.41.2 (web address 2); see already delta 207. [4] …
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698
Διαπηνικίσαι
to pull the wig over
… 304 K.-A.), to whom the grammarian Pausanias and, post-Suda, Etymologicum
Magnum
269.31 attribute this very rare verb. [1] Actually phnh/kh; see LSJ s.v. (web address 1) and pi 1529. [2] cf. LSJ s.v. fenaki/zw …
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808
Διαυλωνίζειν
to 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.
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1106
Δίκρανα
pitchforks
… as lexica and grammars (Hesychius, Herodian, Photius, ps.-Zonaras, the Etymologicum
Magnum).
It is a wooden (Etym.Magn. 506.18) gardening implement as well as a defensive weapon; cf. the diminutive in the gloss at delta 1109 …
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1192
Διοπτῆρα
scout
… to that passage and the gloss to\n skopo\n in Etymologicum
Magnum
278.10. The rare, poetic word recurs in later Greek prose: see Agathias 2.2; and delta 1193. diopth\r is also considered as an equivalent …
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1388
Δοροδόκος
roof-beam
… ps.-Zonaras' entry which echoes the present one, and in Etymologicum
Magnum
731.10. LSJ s.v. nevertheless registers it as dourodo/kos, as in Harpocration sigma52 Keaney. On the dor-/dour- discrepancy see generally LSJ s.v. do/ru; and …
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75
Ἐγκάρσιον
athwart, oblique
… adjective ka/rsios is confined to lexicography, but note that Etymologicum
Magnum
310.24-27 sees the root as kei/rw "I shear".) For the synonym e)pika/rsios see LSJ s.v.
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85
Ἐγκαινίδες
gunwales
… -- which however has the form e)gkeni/das (glossed in Etymologicum
Magnum
310.37). In 559 CE, the Kotrigur Huns build a flotilla of reinforced reed rafts (cf. kappa 2274) for an amphibious assault on the …
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437
Ἐκηριώθην
I was turned to wax
… to wax') and khrioqh=nai ('to be turned to wax'). Etymologicum
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and Etymologicum Genuinum have a similar entry with the headword spelt e)khrw/qhn. None of these words occur outside lexicography, however.
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1295
Ἔνη
the day after tomorrow, the second day after
… probably an error for h( triaka\s th=s selh/nhs at Etymologicum
Magnum
340.55f., 'the 30th. day of the month', i.e. the 29th., in a definition of e(/nh kai\ ne/a (cf. epsilon 1292, epsilon 1293, epsilon …
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1946
Ἐπάλξεις
battlements
… entry = Lexica Segueriana 226.9; cf. Hesychius epsilon4144 (and Etymologicum
Magnum
353.20). [2] Greek Anthology 5.294.3 (Agathias Scholasticus). Here the word occurs in the nominative singular. Other quotations from this epigram appear at alpha …
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2270
Ἐπίγραμμα
epigram, inscription
cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
258.24 (the same point expressed in different words).
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2428
Ἐπικύλλωμα
aftertwist
… similar to later ones, in Etymologicum Gudianum 505.9 and Etymologicum
Magnum
361.8. The headword appears in quite a different sense in Eustathius' commentary on Homer, Odyssey 8.311, where it stands as a synonym for …
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2497
Ἐπίξηνος
chopping-block
… upsilon 265, and cf. Etymologicum Gudianum 415.33, Hesychius epsilon5019, Etymologicum
Magnum
362.22-3. Adler also cites the Ambrosian Lexicon (1336) and several references compiled by Ludwich. See also the apparatus in Theodoridis' edition of Photius, …
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2593
Ἐπίσσωτρα
rims
… Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 74.8; Hesychius epsilon5221; Etymologicum Gudianum 510.7, Etymologicum
Magnum
364.26), though in the Homeric passage in question the rims are said explicitly to be of bronze.
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2734
Ἐπιτροχάδην
fluently, trippingly, volubly
… passages it is in a phrase describing speaking; cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
367.3 and, more remotely, Synagoge, Hesychius epsilon5362, Etymologicum Gudianum 512.5. [2] Aelian, History of Animals 7.7 (which contains a related but different and …
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2789
Ἐπλινθεύθησαν
they were bricked in
… Segueriana 253.8-12 (Glossae rhetoricae; cf. Lex.Seg., *dikw=n o)no/mata 187.27, Etymologicum
Magnum
367.43) suggests that the original context was in the corpus of one of the classical Athenian orators. Note LSJ s.v. plinqeu/w, III: 'Pass. …
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3116
Ἐσάλευε
was riding
… that preserves the explanation of the expression. See also Etymologicum
Magnum
381.2-9. The headword and the near-synonym which provide the twin headwords of the entry are both imperfect indicative active, third-person singulars; respectively, of …
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3254
Ἔσχατος Μυσῶν πλεῖν
to sail last of the Mysians
… are semantically similar. Very similar material appears, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
384.21-25; see Adler's apparatus for more comparanda. In this first effort e)/sxatos is derived from sxe/sis ('holding', 'checking'). [4] This opaque sentence seems …
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