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- μ114Μαλκίστατονmost freezing, very freezing[Meaning] most/very cold. "The day, most/very freezing for me".
- κ1388Κέρδιστοςmost crafty, very crafty[Meaning] most/very cunning.
- κ1591Κιθαραοιδότατοςmost proficient on the kithara"You have produced three sons, who are most talented in the arts. First, someone who is friend to everyone and most/very wise, the most proficient on the kithara, one whom grace has visited." Aristophanes …
- μ398Μέγηρονmost lovable (?)… (Hesiod, Theogony 240) has the textual variant megh/rata te/kna qea/wn "most lovable children of goddesses" (LSJ s.v. megh/ritos, from e)rato/s); and megh/ratos is glossed in the Etymologicum Magnum and ps.-Zonaras with the same word, …
- κ1429Κεστρᾶν τεμάχηmullets' slices[1] Aristophanes, Clouds 339. The phrase includes the Doric genitive plural of ke/stra. The word ke/stra is also glossed in Hesychius kappa2382: "a defensive weapon; a hammer; and a kind of fish". Photius, Lexicon …
- κ2319Κραμβοτάτουloudest, quite loud, very loud[Meaning] most/very sweet, most/very dry. Aristophanes made a joke from the idea of the vegetable; for Crates was an improviser in his plays. Or [meaning] air-dried; or very useful.
- λ840Λύμηmaltreatment… torture and varied kinds of abuse; and with a punishment most fitting, crucified him on a hill conspicuous to all."
- μ581ΜεμύρωμαιI have anointed myselfAristophanes [writes]: "personally I am a most blissful woman, to have anointed my head with good perfumes; but the little amphoras [of wine] from Thasos exceed them by far." "Little amphoras" [are] jars; and …
- κ1276Κεκυφότεςbent-forward, stooping… is indicating its gluttony. For those humans and animals who most particularly stoop into their food, and stick by it, seem to eat greedily and very eagerly.
- μ582Μεμυστιλημένοιhaving scooped bread to eat soup… in any connection, but are now fortunate. He says "with most meager" breads, namely barley-groats: for drawing up the broths with hollow bread they were filled up quickly, through lack of bread. And the …
- κ1528Κῆποςgarden… on the forehead. Aristophanes [writes]: "do you know what you most look like with those feathers? A goose painted on the cheap." --- "And you [look like] a blackbird closely shaven with a 'boat'."
- λ678Λορδόνbent backwards, convex[Meaning] something humped. Also [sc. attested is the superlative] lordo/taton ["most/very bent"], [meaning something] bent upwards and opposite to the curved [sc. shape, i.e. concave]; that which is also called "stooping".
- κ1510Κηλιδωτόνspotted, stained… s.v. maculosus. The adjective is occasionally used in Modern Greek, mostly in Linnaean names (kalliw/numos khlidwto/s = Callionymus maculatus, spotted dragonet; khlidwto/s tetra/nuxos = Tetranychus urticae, two-spotted spider mite).
- κ1315Κενεμβατεῖνto step on a hole, to lack a solid foundation… Plutarch (Flamininus 10), and figuratively by Lucian (Gallus 26). Its most frequent meaning was medical ("reach a cavity, e.g. with a lancet"), but that is not glossed here.
- κ1347Κέπφοςstormy petrel… light and floats on the waves. "O petrel!", meaning o most paltry and babbling!; for that is what they say the petrel is like. The proverbial saying is applied to thoughtless men. For the …
- κ1266Κεκρηγέναι ἢ Κεκραγέναιto cry out… the Suda (and ps.-Zonaras: "kekrhge/nai, instead of kekrage/nai"); it is most probably a grammarian's fiction.
- μ105ΜάλλιοςMallius, Manlius… -- which [act], committed with savagery, naturally made the Romans most obedient to their leaders. See under "dictator".
- κ1383Κερδαλεόφρωνprofit-minded, greedy, crafty… but the distinction is artificial. [1] This adjective, dolio/boulos, is mostly restricted to lexicographers: Hesychius, Photius, the Lexica Segueriana, and delta 1342 glossing forms of dolomh/ths; Eudemus (2 CE?) glossing a)gkulomh/ths. However Romanus the …
- κ1953Κολουραία πέτρα'stump-tailed' rock… steep, abrupt rock". Hesychius kappa3380 glosses the adjective as "truncated, most/very new". Other lexicographers list *kolourai=os as the adjective corresponding to an obscure city called Koloura, near Priene in Asia Minor. In the scholia …
- κ2318Κράμβηcabbage… not get drunk on wine. And Alcaeus' offspring says: "kneading most ingenious notions from a quite loud [krambotatou] mouth". Namely from a very sweet one, from a very dry one. Because the cabbage is …
- κ1891ΚνυζώσωI will darken… "and I will darken your two eyes that had been most beautiful". The verb is knuzo/w, now considered derived from knuzo/s "dim, bleary-eyed". But scholiasts connected it instead to knu/w "scratch": it is accordingly …
- κ1432Κεστρεῖςmullets… other fish. ... Of all fishes the mullet is the most voracious and insatiable, and in consequence its belly is kept at full stretch; whenever it is not starving, it may be considered as …
- κ2025Κομψόνelegant, subtle, pleasant… tolerate the subtlety of the misfortunes, he rubbished Bahram with most disgraceful insults, bestowing women's clothing to him as trophies for his infamy." The misfortune was Bahram Chobin's defeat by the Byzantines; following his …