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1513
Κηλόνειον
swipe, swing-beam
LSJ s.v. khlw/neion [sic] I: a device for drawing water. Defined with the Suda's spelling khlo/neion in ps.-Zonaras, Gennadius Scholarius' Grammar, the Etymologicum Gudianum and the Etymologicum Magnum. In ps.-Zonaras: "But khlo/neion is a …
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1275
Κεκοισυρῶσθαι
to be like Coesyra
The verb occurs as e)gkoisuro/omai in classical Greek; its locus classicus is Aristophanes, Clouds 48 (web address 1), and it is glossed in LSJ s.v. as "to be luxurious as Coesyra (a female name …
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1526
Κηπαία
garden [door]
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon; very similar one in ps.-Zonaras. It has probably been generated by the genitive of the headword (a feminine noun) in Hermippus fr. 47 Kock (preserved …
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1793
Κλητή
called, invited; assembly
Glossed in other lexica as "prominent" (Etymologicum Gudianum) or "prominent or invited" (ps.-Zonaras). The latter provides the context for the word: "as in: This invited and holy day" (klhth\ kai\ a(gi/a h(me/ra). This is …
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2212
Κωδαλοῦχος
kôdalouchos
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. ps.-Zonaras glosses the same word as sxoi=nic, which appears to mean xoi=nic, a measure of dry weight. What ps.-Zonaras glosses as "a measure of land" …
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65
Καθεῖντο
they let down
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras. The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) is third person plural, aorist indicative middle, of the verb kaqi/hmi (for which see also kappa 50, kappa 52, kappa 61, kappa …
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99
Καθίει
was initiating
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras. [1] The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given, though these glosses (which are attested poorly, if at all, for the headword verb) do not make a good fit …
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142
Κακεντρέχεια
mischief-making
The headword is very rare, but see e.g. Polybius 4.87.4; and cf. under tau 988 for a cognate. Same entry in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon (282).
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157
Κακοέπεια
bad language
Likewise in Photius, Lexicon kappa92 (though in the form kakoe/pia) and in ps.-Zonaras 1150. In either form the headword is otherwise unattested. For the gloss cf. under alphaiota 241, kappa 608 (and see also …
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185
Κακχεῦσαι
to let fall
This entry -- identical in ps.-Zonaras 1171 -- was omitted from Adler's manuscript A (Parisinus 2626) and confined to the margins of M (Marcianus 448). The headword (presumably quoted from somewhere though not attested …
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289
Κάμμορος
ill-fated
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon 39. The headword is an epic contracted form of kata/moros ('adversely-fated'), although ancient scholars tend to analyze it as deriving from kako/moros ('bad-fated') …
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300
Καναχηδόν
clangingly
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras. The headword is a variant -- found mainly in late epic -- of the poetic adverb kanaxhda/ (from kanaxh/ "clang"; see under eta 482).
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325
Καππάδοξ
Kappadokian, Cappadocian
On Cappadocia see generally OCD(4) s.v.: the name "at one time designated the whole region between Lake Tatta [a.k.a. Tuz Gölü, Salt Lake] and the Euphrates [cf. epsilon 3810], and from the Euxine Sea …
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326
Καπανῆται
cords? charioteers?
The headword, attested only here, has the typical form of a nomen agentis ending in -hths (plural -htai). Its LSJ entry (web address 1) implicitly links it with another hapax, kapa/nia, which Hesychius kappa687 …
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926
Κατέδραθε
fell asleep
… is only extant, outside lexicography, in Michael Attaliates 164.2 and
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Epitome historiarum 71.11).
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1141
Καυστειρός Καυτηρὸς
burning
The primary headword adjective kausteiro/s (LSJ at web address 1) appears in twice in Homer (Iliad 4.342, 12.316) in the feminine genitive singular, used figuratively of battle. The masculine appears by analogy in late …
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1235
Κεκαινοπεποιημένοι
renewed
Quotation (from which the nominative plural headword is extracted) repeated here from epsilon 552, and unidentifiable. The corresponding entry in Ps.Zonaras has kekainopoihme/noi with one less reduplication; cf. Hesychius pi194.
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1236
Κεκαφηότα
having breathed out
Longer entry along the same lines in ps.-Zonaras; cf. already kappa 1147. The headword is an epic perfect participle (masculine accusative singular), used by Homer only in the phrase kekafho/ta qumo/n, "having breathed out …
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1260
Κέκραθι
scream!, shriek!
The transmitted headword purports to be a reduplicated aorist imperative of kra/zw (kappa 2316, cf. kappa 1264, kappa 1266), attested only here, in two derivative entries in ps.-Zonaras, and (according to Adler) in the …
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1266
Κεκρηγέναι ἢ Κεκραγέναι
to cry out
Perfect active infinitive(s) of the verb kra/zw (kappa 2316), frequently used with present sense. The second alternative given here, with its stem ending in alpha, kekrag-, is abundantly attested in antiquity (and cf. under …
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1437
Κευθῆνες
keuthenes
Clearly related to the verb keu/qw (kappa 1435) "hide" (cf. peu/qomai "ask" > peuqh/n "spy"), but the word is not attested in literature. The word does appear, in the singular, in ps.-Zonaras and the …
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1504
Κηλέστης
beguiler
Derived from the verb khle/w (kappa 1515). The word is attested only in lexica: the Suda, ps.-Zonaras (with the derivation from khle/w), and Gennadius Scholarius' Grammar II p. 458 Jugie, Petit & Siderides. See …
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1527
Κηπεύω Κηπεία Κηπίον
I garden
Listing of related words; khpei/a, h( is "garden" in Plato, Laws 845D. (ps.-Zonaras construes the word as "gardening"). The diminutive khpi/on occurs e.g. in Polybius 6.17.2. Though this kind of spelling distinction is a …
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1560
Κηφηῒς γῆ
Kephean land
For Kepheus see kappa 1559. The present headword phrase is used as a periphrasis for 'Ethiopia' (alphaiota 126, alphaiota 127) by Nicander, Alexipharmaka 100 (accusative case); cf. the scholia there. Similarly (adjective only), according …
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1576
Κίβησις
bag, pouch, wallet
The headword ki/bhsis is a variant spelling of ki/bisis, which occurs in Hesiod, Shield 224: "the head of a dreadful monster, the Gorgon, covered the broad of his back, and a bag [chest?] of …
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1577
Κίβος
kibos
LSJ s.v. kibwto/s [kappa 1578] mentions this entry as a suggested root form of the noun, whose etymology is problematic. But the same derivation is given in Choeroboscus (On Orthography), the Etymologicum Gudianum, the …
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1584
Κιγκλίζει
wags one's tail
The verb kigkli/zw -- of which this is ostensibly the present indicative, third person singular (but see below) -- is derived from ki/gklos "dabchick" (kappa 1585), and literally means to act like the dabchick, …
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1695
Κιχλισμός
giggling
Same definition given in Pausanias the Atticist, the Synagoge, and Photius (Lexicon kappa750 Theodoridis). Other definitions include "whorish laughter, excessive and indecorous" (Etymologicum Magnum), "small laugh" (ps.-Zonaras), "strong laugh" (Herodian, On Spelling vol. 3,2 …
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1774
Κληΐσατε
celebrate in song!
The headword is aorist active imperative, second person plural, of the verb klh/|zw (cf. kappa 1773 and LSJ s.v., I). Evidently quoted from somewhere -- but not Euripides, Alcestis 548 (web address 1), where …
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1808
Κλίνθη
lay down
The poetic unaugmented aorist passive of kli/nw, with nu in its stem, is glossed with the augmented normal aorist without nu. The headword form appears in Homer, Iliad 23.232. Similar entries in Hesychius and …
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