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248
Καλοπόδιον
last
… rare variant for feminine kalopous (kappa 201): see e.g. Etymologicum
Magnum
510.45-47, and (as LSJ notes) a variant reading in Galen, Thrasybulus (vol.5.890.12 Kuehn). For kalo/pous (also written kala-) see e.g. Plato, Symposium 191A; …
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1284
Κελαινεφές
of the black clouds; black
… the Odyssey 1.398.14ff.; Hesychius kappa2131 = Anecdota Oxoniensia 1.234.25; Etymologicum
Magnum
501.44. Under this theory, a hypothetical *kelainonefh/s has lost an unaccented syllable (Etym.Magn. 501.50ff.) through haplology or syllable-loss through dissimilation (Schwyzer, Gr.Gr. 1. …
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2098
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… Cassius Dio 62.29; Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. *Te/rgis; Etymologicum
Magnum
s.v. *Zeu/s and omega 182. The first and principal paragraph of the present entry is Aelian fr. 86 Domingo-Forasté (83 Hercher). [1] Titus …
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2488
Κρωβύλος
top-knot
… address 2) with Harpokration s.v. krwbu/los, *(hgh/sippos (= Photius, Etymologicum
Magnum
418.46); Etym.Magn. 541.33; omicron 1091, tau 599. Further excerpts from this epigram are at pi 1686, tau 1201, and upsilon 304. [4] Xenophon, …
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2738
Κύπρις
Kypris, Kupris, Cypris
… the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.422 (giving rise to Etymologicum
Magnum
546.17). [2] cf. Etym.Magn. 543.40. [3] cf. beta 462. [4] beta 461.
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2318
Κράμβη
cabbage
… 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 …
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303
Κάνδυλος
kandulos, kandylos
… [2] Very similar entries in Etymologicum Gudianum 297.22 and Etymologicum
Magnum
488.54 (s.v. kandu/lh). The second part is unintelligible in all three versions, but in different ways: Etymologicum Gudianum has "and sour-sauce qroiko\n food", …
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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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1576
Κίβησις
bag, pouch, wallet
… (Hesychius s.v. xlido/s, ps.-Zonaras s.v. a)skoph/ra, Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum
Magnum
s.v. ph/ra, alpha 4178). All other lexica glossing ki/bisis ~ ki/bhsis likewise hedge their bets and gloss it as "chest or pouch" (John …
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1584
Κιγκλίζει
wags one's tail
… (Herodian, Schematismi Homerici 114 and Hesychius give both, the Etymologicum
Magnum
just "tempt"). Ps.-Zonaras and the Etymologicum
Magnum
also give "safeguard", deriving the verb instead from kigkli/s "lattice gate" (kappa 1582). Outside the lexica, …
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2179
Κουρεώτης
barber
… in the Ambrosian Lexicon. [2] Likewise (the festival) in Etymologicum
Magnum
533.41. [3] Similarly Etymologicum
Magnum
533.51. [4] alpha 2940.
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2243
Κῶλον
limb
… and kappa 2232). [1] The Etymologicum Gudianum and the Etymologicum
Magnum
use this derivation for koili/a "belly" instead. [2] That is, "worm" is derived from "limb" as its antonym (antiphrasis was normally used to …
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2753
Κυρήβια
husks
… s.v. ko/mmata kai\ kurh/bia, citing Dinarchus (19 fr. 5); Etymologicum
Magnum
547.48. In place of a)pobre/gmata ('infusions') here and in Hesychius and Photius we should perhaps read a)pobra/smata, 'things winnowed out', on the basis …
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2
Καββαλίς
kabbalis
… [2] Thus far the entry has a parallel in Etymologicum
Magnum
482.18-20, though the headword there is ka/bbalis with the variant kaba/llhs and the glossing participle (for both) present-tense kataba/llwn. The noun kaba/llhs meant …
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122
Καθοσίωσις
treason; holiness
… below. [2] cf. Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica 5.14. "Maximus" here is
Magnus
Maximus or Maximianus, who usurped control over the Western Roman Empire and on whom Quintus Aurelius Symmachus delivered a panegyric. [3] John of …
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154
Κάκιθος
criminal, victim
… thus, is unattested outside grammarians and lexicographers. Of these, Etymologicum
Magnum
484.55-57 expands the present gloss (for which cf. kappa 152) most helpfully: "it means him who is being punished, or badly treated". Another …
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191
Κάλαϊς
Kalais, Calais
cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
486.50; Hesychius s.v. ka/lai+s (kappa94). [1] One of the sons of Boreas (see under beta 390). cf. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.211ff. [2] Blue-green. [3] Purportedly an abbreviated phrase from Aeschylus, Agamemnon …
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268
Κάλυμνος
kalymnos, calymnus
See also Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum
Magnum
s.v. *ka/lumnos. [1] Though this entry does involve real confusion of toponyms (see n. 3 below) it does not begin here: Kalymnos and Kalydne are alternative names …
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273
Καλυψώ
Calypso, Kalypso
… as from the verb kalu/ptw "conceal" (kappa 272); cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
486.24-5. [2] Homer, Odyssey 7.245 (web address 1); cf. 9.32 for the same adjective used of Circe.
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281
Καμηλαύκιον
cap, hood, kamelavkion
cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
487.49, where the second vowel is epsilon and the garment is equated with the kausia (kappa 1139). The word is used for a cap worn by court officials, and for the …
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286
Κάμνειν
to toil
cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
488.18-21, Etymologicum Gudianum 295.49-53 [1] Homer, Iliad 23.72 (= Odyssey 11.476, 24.14); and cf. kappa 288. [2] These phrases (both of which, it seems, should use the compound verb) are also …
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287
Καμμονίη
endurance
… On the Suda's side of the issue see also Etymologicum
Magnum
488.45. On the opposite side stand most of the critics whose names we know: Aristonicus ad locc.; Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon 94.29; Eustathius ad …
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288
Καμόντων
of those whose work is done
… current quotation is a reminiscence; cf. scholia ad locc., Etymologicum
Magnum
102.50, 488.25; Lexicon Vindobonense kappa56; and kappa 286. [1] Greek Anthology 7.68.3-4 (Archias); see also the LSJ entry for ei)/dwlon for 'ghosts' (web …
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289
Κάμμορος
ill-fated
… deriving from kako/moros ('bad-fated') by syncope: Etymologicum Gudianum 297.6, Etymologicum
Magnum
488.42; cf. Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon 95.7, and Hesychius kappa604. Found requently in the masculine vocative singular in Homer's Odyssey: e.g. 5.160 (web address …
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328
Κάππαρις
caper
cf. Orus in Etymologicum
Magnum
490.16. The etymology offered for kapparis (already kappa 327) is almost certainly false. Greek mp is euphonic anyway, and it is highly unlikely that the nasal would assimilate to …
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406
Καρρόον
down along the channel
… 300.36; cf. Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon 95.28. But only the Etymologicum
Magnum
467.23 (s.v. i)e/nai) cites the one place the form ka\r r(o/on occurs: Homer, Iliad 12.33 (web address 1). The scholia to that passage, …
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412
Καρπαία
karpaia, crop-dance
… Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.7: "after this some men from Ainos and
Magnesia
[in Thessaly] stood up and danced, in armour, the so-called karpaia". It was thought noteworthy enough to be quoted by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.15F-16A …
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414
Κάρπιμος τόπος
fruitful place
The headword phrase is presumably quoted from somewhere; cf. Etymologicum
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12.36-7.
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463
Κασταναία
Kastanaia, Castanaea, Kasthenaia, Casthenaea
On the Aegean coast of the
Magnesian
peninsula in north-central Greece; Barrington Atlas map 55 grid D1; present-day Keramidi. Kasthenaia is the most authentic form of the ancient name.
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567
Κατακᾶσα
katakasa, whore
… (but not identical) entries in other lexica: Hesychius kappa1154; Etymologicum
Magnum
493.28, 494.38. [1] From Callimachus, Hecale fr. 288. The headword is etymologically related to kappa 446, kappa 447, kappa 448. [2] kappa 452.
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