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κ1854Κνάφοςcarding-combIn Herodotus [this means] a thorn dragging through clothes. In times past carders would comb wool by rolling up a heap of thorns. And the heap was called knaphos.Matched in translationhighshort
κ1404Κέρκουροςkerkouros, light galley… Hesychius, Photius, the Lexica Segueriana, the Etymologicum Magnum, Glosses on Herodotus 7.97, Herodian De prosodia catholica vol. 3.1 p. 202), all with some variation of "kind of boat" or "kind of ship". [2] Tzetzes, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1505Κηληθμόςrapture… The noun is correctly glossed in Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, "delight"; Herodian, Schematismi Homerici 113 "enchanting of hearing"; and Hesychius kappa2498 "delight, joy". No other lexicon offers this interpretation. For that matter, the meaning of …

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carding-comb

In Herodotus [this means] a thorn dragging through clothes. In times past carders would comb wool by rolling up a heap of thorns. And the heap was called knaphos.

Κνάφος· παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ ἄκανθα ἕλκουσα ἱμάτια. ὅτι τὸ παλαιὸν οἱ κναφεῖς ἀκανθῶν σωρὸν συστρέψαντες τὰ ἱμάτια ἔκναπτον. ὁ δὲ σωρὸς ἐλέγετο κνάφος.

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κ1584Κιγκλίζειwags one's tail… sense "to tempt", from the same motion applied to humans (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 …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1891ΚνυζώσωI will darken… it is accordingly defined as "destroy" (i.e. scratch out) by Herodian, De prosodia catholica p. 444 Lentz (citing Philoxenus fr. 120 Theodoridis) and Orion [Author, Myth], Etymologicum s.v. knuzou=n. The Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. knuzhqmo/s …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1232Κεκαθίσθαιto have sat down… likely the lexicographer is copying the instance of kekaqi/sqai in Herodian's Partitions, where he points out that the perfect middle-passive infinitive of kaqi/zw (if there is one) is spelled with iota, while the infinitive …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1314Κενεβρίωνof carrion… loc. The word is glossed in many other lexicographers, from Herodian on; many of them (including Herodian) gloss it as nekrimai=a, but only the scholiast alludes to anagrams. (For references see under Photius kappa561 …Matched in noteshighshort

λ228Λεηλασίαlooting… lexica: see the references at Photius lambda141 Theodoridis, and add Herodian, Partitions p. 75 Boissonade. Herodian derives the noun from lew/s "people" ("lew\s, o( lao\s, o(/qen kai\ lehlasi/a, h( ai)xmalwsi/a"), lambda 275; hence the …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1089Κατοργᾶνbe quite eager, to press ahead… at web address 1). TLG shows it as appearing in Herodotus 6.102 (web address 2), but katorgw=ntes there is merely one of several suggested emendations for the transmitted katerga/zontes.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1105Κατώγειονunderground… alpha 2582. See also kappa 1106. *katw/geios first appears in Herodian the grammarian (not as a hypothetical form: De prosodia catholica vol. 3.1, p. 191), and Porphyry (De antro nympharum 8.16); it is the …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1141Καυστειρός Καυτηρὸςburning… the masculine adjective with ei, to match kau/steira. Grammarians from Herodian on (De prosodia catholica vol. 3,1 p. 199) defend the ei spelling as a Boeoticism (ou) ma/xetai: "it cannot be disputed"). [Adler reports …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1208Καίοιτοmight lie, might be located… kei=mai. If ke/oito is correct, its source might be e.g. Herodotus 1.67.3, Isaeus 6.32, Plato Republic 477A or Laws 841B, but there are numerous later possibilities. It remains uncertain why the gloss has the …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1214Κέαταιthey lie, they lie down… it an Ionic present tense (there are further instances in Herodotus). The alpha comes from a dialectal treatment of vocalic n; see Smyth §791D (web address 2). Besides 11.659 (above), the form ke/atai occurs …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1224ΚεδάζωI disperse… The present keda/zw is a grammarians' invention, first appearing in Herodian as a variant of keda/w. It is patterned after the Koine use of [dia-]skeda/zw instead of skeda/nnumi (verb equivalent to keda/nnumi), which in …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1239Κεκινέαταιthey have been moved… already cited as an example of the Ionic plural by Herodian (peri\ paqw=n v.3,2. p. 225.)Matched in noteshighshort

κ1243Κεκληγότεςhaving shouted… addresses 2 and 3. The regular form first appears in Herodian, commenting on Homer avoiding it (peri\ *)iliakh=s prosw|di/as, vol. 3,2. p. 81), and outside grammarians it shows up only in a couple of …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1249Κεκλωσμέναthings spun… with the same meaning, and Philostratus uses the same word (Heroicus 732.7: diepo/rqmeusen au)to\n e)s th\n *fqi/an dia\ ta\ e)p' au)tw=| keklwsme/na, "Thetis sent Achilles away to Phthia because of what was fated for …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1260Κέκραθιscream!, 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 …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1303Κελήτιονdinghy, yacht… II), with a single bank of oars; it occurs in Herodotus 8.94, Thucydides 4.9, 8.38, Xenophon Hellenica 1.6.36, and elsewhere. On the two senses of ke/lhs, see kappa 1300 and kappa 1301.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1332Κεντηνάριονcentenarium, hundred-pounds-weight… term for a hundred pounds in weight; first attested in Hero [Author, Myth] of Alexandria (1 CE?), On Measures 60.2, and frequently used by Byzantine authors, particularly Malalas and Procopius. Glossed in the Etymologicum …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1416ΚερόεσσαhornedThe adjective kero/eis can refer to (e.g.) the horned Moon, carriages drawn by oxen, and ornaments made of horn -- see generally LSJ s.v. -- but the repeated glossing here is suggestive, rather, of …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1419Κερωφόροςhorn-bearing, hornedThe unglossed headword kerwfo/ros, confined to lexica and grammars, is a variant of kerofo/ros (LSJ s.v. kerofo/ros, Trapp s.v. kerofo/ros, kerwfo/ros). The adjective kerofo/ros appears in Euripides, Bacchae 691 (genitive plural: "when she heard …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1508<20Κηλήτηςhernia-suffererFrom kh/lh, Attic ka/lh, "tumor, hernia": see LSJ s.v. Used in Strabo 17.3.4, Cassius Dio 73.2.3, Galen 10.988 Kühn. The entry is paralleled in Phrynichus, ps.-Herodian, and other lexica. Adler regards the entry, lacking …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1513Κηλόνειονswipe, swing-beam… and forwards." The lexica contrast their khlo/neion with khlw/nion "stallion" (Herodian, Partitions p. 65 Boissonade; ps.-Zonaras, Gennadius Scholarius, the Etymologicum Magnum, kappa 1517) or "burned by the gadfly = sexually excited" (Etymologicum Gudianum). The …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1517Κηλώνιονstallion… diminutive. Restricted in this sense to lexica and grammars, from Herodian onwards, which make a spurious spelling distinction with the khlo/neion of kappa 1513 (q.v. for further discussion).Matched in noteshighshort

κ1545Κηρύκειονherald's wand… only to the lexica, and thinks this is a stone). Herodian, De Prosodia Catholica vol. 3,1. p. 375, distinguishes a khrukei=on "with a single gender and appelative (= noun)" from an adjectival and proper …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1592Κιθαρόςflatfish; chest… bones to the strings". The word is also glossed by Erotian ("a name for the chest in Doric") and Hesychius kappa2634 ("breast, rib; also a fish").Matched in noteshighshort

κ1695Κιχλισμόςgiggling… excessive and indecorous" (Etymologicum Magnum), "small laugh" (ps.-Zonaras), "strong laugh" (Herodian, On Spelling vol. 3,2 p. 535 Lentz, Hesychius). From the verb kixli/zw, for which see kappa 1694 (and under gamma 267.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1797Κλῆτοςrenown… as klh/tei, like the Suda; it is spelled klei/tei by Herodian (De prosodia catholica p. 393, *peri\ *)iliakh=s prosw|di/as p. 81), and the scholia vetera to Homer, Iliad 12.66. cf. kappa 1765, kappa 1768.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1807Κλίνηcouch, bedGloss as Herodian, Partitions p. 66 ed. Boissonade. (Hesychius kappa3010 has krabbatos.) The Classical word is glossed with a Koine form (LSJ s.v. kraba/tion; diminutive of kra/bbaton, for which see under alpha 4161, sigma …Matched in noteshighshort

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