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κ
1089
Κατοργᾶν
be quite eager, to press ahead
[Meaning] to be of surpassing vigour.
high
short
κ
1092
Κατορώρυκται
has been buried
[Meaning he/she/it] has been heaped over.
high
short
κ
1105
Κατώγειον
underground
In the [sc. Attic] masculine and feminine, [this is spelled] with a short e [epsilon] and a long o [omega], [sc. like] o( a)nw/gews kai\ h( a)nw/gews ["above ground"]. [sc. The latter adjective is] …
high
botany
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short
κ
1106
Κατώγεων κατώγειον
underground
[katw/gewn], but [sc. also attested as] katw/geion].
high
short
κ
1108
Κατωθούμενος
being pushed down
[Meaning one] being overturned.
high
short
κ
1111
Κατώλισθον
I slipped down, they slipped down
[Meaning] I/they fell down.
high
short
κ
1119
Κατωφρυῶσθαι
to be furnished with eyebrows; to frown, to be stern
[Used] with a genitive.
high
short
κ
1127
Καττύεται
is stitched together
Standing for the [verb] is put together, is sewed together. Aristophanes [writes]: "I myself know [the place] from where, long since, this affair has been stitched together." The metaphor [comes] from shoes.
high
short
κ
1128
Καττύει
stitches together
[Meaning he/she/it] prepares. [Meaning he/she/it] sews together, stitches together. "And they said that Baram was stitching together a war with forty thousand." For kattu/w [means] I sew tricks.
high
short
κ
1129
Κάττυμα
stitched-leather
[Meaning] deceit, trickery. Aristophanes [writes]: "[Kleon,] whom one day I shall personally flay to make sandals for the knights." But kattymata are strong and hard pieces of leather, which are placed under sandals and …
high
short
κ
1135
Καυλῶ
I form a shoot, I form a stalk
[I form a shoot/stalk], [future] I will form a shoot/stalk. [sc. Also attested is] e)kkekaulhko/ta ["having put out a shoot/stalk"]: "all of the [parts of the] vegetables that have put out a shoot/stalk".
high
short
κ
1140
Καύσωνος
burning heat's, heatwave's, summer heat's
[Meaning] heat's.
high
short
κ
1141
Καυστειρός Καυτηρὸς
burning
[kausteiro/s], but kauthro/s [sc. is also attested].
high
short
κ
1143
Καυτηρός
burning
[no gloss]
high
short
κ
1148
Καφώρης
of a vixen, vixen's
"Despise the deceitful and wily [sc. nature] of the vixen!". They refer [by the word 'vixen'] to the [sc. female] fox.
high
short
κ
1150
Κἄχεζεν
and he was taking a shit
Aristophanes [sc. uses this word] instead of 'and he was relieving himself'.
high
short
κ
1151
Καχέκται
disaffected, sickly
"In truth there existed among them disaffected [men], addicted to change."
high
short
κ
1152
Καχεξία
ill-health
Also [sc. attested is the related participle] kaxektou=ntes ["they being in ill health"], [meaning] they managing their condition (e(/cis) badly (kakw=s), they being sick. Polybius [writes]: "the courage of Perseus was exhausted by toil …
high
short
κ
1153
Καχλάζει
bubbles
[Meaning he/she/it] is stirred, seethes, boils.
high
short
κ
1154
Κάχληκες
pebbles; gravel
[Meaning] little stones in the water. "He used to choose as much of the gravel that was being brought in for the foundations [...]". Also [sc. attested is the singular] ka/xlhc, [meaning] a kind …
high
short
κ
1172
Καινοπρεπές
new-fangled, novel
"He built a new-fangled siege-engine in secret, carving out the length of large beams and joining these together, and inserting a single chain, reaching all around them, into the slots. He filled the space …
high
short
κ
1186
Καίρια
timely [things]
[Meaning] things that are advantageous. "For to whom [= to whose approval], o noble friends, would I ever hear a word of comfort? To whom who thinks timely [things]?". Meaning from whom would I …
high
short
κ
1204
Καίστωνος
Kaiston's, of Kaiston
A proper name.
high
short
κ
1205
Καὶ ταῦτ' ἔχοντες κυμάτων ἐν ἀγκάλαις
and that too staying in the arms of the waves
Meaning [they] being in many perils.
high
short
κ
1207
Καὶ τάχα ἴμεν
and we (will) go quick
[Meaning] and we [will] make our way quickly.
high
short
κ
1208
Καίοιτο
might lie, might be located
[Meaning he/she/it] might be/exist.
high
short
κ
1214
Κέαται
they lie, they lie down
[ke/atai is the same as] kei=ntai.
high
short
κ
1218
Κεγχραμίδες
pips
The kernels of olives and figs are called kenchramides.
high
short
κ
1224
Κεδάζω
I disperse
[Meaning] I scatter.
high
short
κ
1226
Κεδνός
diligent
[Meaning] intelligent, prudent, or sensible. Ajax [says]: "for ever since I took into my hand this gift from Hector, my greatest enemy, ... men's [proverb is true]."
high
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