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- κ147ΚάκκηcacaIt also has a vulgar connotation. Impurity, and especially, foul-smelling excrement. Aristophanes [writes]: "keeping your nose away from the caca".
- κ318ΚανοῦνbasketA small basket. At the festival of the Dionysia at Athens the well-born women used to be basket-carriers. The baskets on which they put the first-fruits of all [crops] were made of gold. [The …
- κ396ΚαρκίνοςCarcinus, KarkinosAn Attic poet. Someone is mocking Carcinus’ sons thus: "homebred quails, kitbag-gulleted dancers, dwarfish, bits of dung, inventers of artifices." "For their father said that, one evening, a weasel had strangled [the drama which …
- κ1047Κατήλιφαroof-beam, ladder, upper storey[Meaning] tie-beam. Aristophanes [writes]: "we jumped straight up on to the roof-beam."
- κ1465ΚεχήνηI was open-mouthedThe contraction in kexh/nh [is] Attic. For they contract epsilon and alpha into eta, and it is a coalescence from kexh/nea. Those who are paying intense attention to something have their mouths open. It …
- κ1912Κοϊκοΐsqueak-squeak, squeal-squeal[no gloss]
- κ2131Κορυφαῖοςchorus-leader[Meaning] the foremost of the choristers.
- κ2264Κωμικόςcomic writer, comedian[Meaning] the poet [sc. of comedy]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "comic spear-carrying [part]".
- κ2269Κωμῳδιοποιόςcomedy-maker, comic poet[Meaning] one who introduces jokes against someone.
- κ2315Κράδηbranch[Meaning a] fig-branch. It is also a machine. The Spartans used to eat [fig-]branches. That is they used to cut [them] down. "For the cicadas sing on the branches for one month or two; …
- κ2362Κρέαςcarcass, flesh, meatThus the Attic Greeks call the body/person. "[I carry no slave], unless he has been in a sea-battle about the carcasses".
- κ2370ΚρεμάθραhangerA particular kind of device up in the air, in which they put superfluous relishes. It has the name hanger because of its always being hung up in the air. Aristophanes introduces Socrates sitting …
- κ2492Κρώζειis croaking[Meaning he/she/it] is crying like a crow or a raven. "She's croaking backwards again." [sc. The croaking signifies] 'go to the back!' Aristophanes in Birds [sc. says this]. For 'backwards' [means] to the back: …
- κ2600Κυβιστητίαtumbler[Meaning a] dance. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] 'tumblerage', [meaning] dancing.
- κ2646Κυκλιοδιδάσκαλοςcircular-trainerLagos the Interpreter was the first to establish circular dances.
- κ2671Κυλλόςgimpy[Meaning] someone disabled not only in the foot, but also in the hand as well. 'Lame' also applies to both foot and hand. But some read 'of Gimpy' [*ku/llou] as [an error for?] 'of …
- κ2680ΚύμβαλαcymbalsMusical instruments. In the Epigrams: "and sharp-clashing, hollow-lipped cymbals."
- κ2694Κυνασβοτῆραςherdsman-dogsTo be read as a single [concept]. [Meaning] shepherds' dogs. For [Sophocles] does not kill a human being on stage, but outside he kills some [dogs].
- κ2701Κυνῆdog-capAristophanes [writes]: "boat or dog-cap." In reference to ambiguous things. "Boat" inasmuch as triremes have wings and wings stretch out like oars; "dog-cap" because she has as her headgear the petasos, like Hermes, since …
- κ2784Κύσον μεkiss me[Meaning] show me affection. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "kiss me and give me your right hand." For a pledge and agreements they used to give their right hands to each other. So in an …
- κ2786ΚύτταροςcellThe covering of the acorn, where the acorn sits. The receptacle of the acorn, or the blossom-end of the pomegranate, or the receptacle and perforation in the honecombs of bees. Or the highest part …
- κ2787Κύτταροςcell[Meaning] the perforations of honeycombs and of wasps. But Theophrastus says that properly the cell is the first-bloom of the pine, which is like a small ear of large wheat grains, and when it …