Σφαδάζουσα
struggling
Translated by David Armstrong2 Jul 2014Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] acting wickedly.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σφαδάζουσα· πανουργεύουσα.
Betacode
*sfada/zousa: panourgeu/ousa.
Notes
- = Synagoge, Photius; cf. Lexicon to the Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus 185, as well as Hesychius sigma2831 (
sfada/zousa: r(hgnume/nh "being torn apart").
For this verb cf. already sigma 1706 and sigma 1707. The present entry's headword is its present active participle, feminine nominative singular. Sincesfada/zousa can mean "conflictedly desiring" as well as "struggling" to do something, the (feminine) subject is doing evil, evidently, not just desiring it; but one might think also of a subject likeh( logikh\ fu/sis (Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 28.13) which is described with this word as it frustratedly tries to find God in the visible world.
On the present indicative, third person singular, Hesychius sigma2829 gives a long list of synonyms.
Linked from2 entries
- σ1706Σφαδάζεινto struggle[Meaning] to (?)trouble, to die hard, to be anxious in vain, to take things hard, to bemoan angrily. *sfada/zein also [means] to throb, from the [verb] to be anxious. Also [sc. attested is] sfakeli/zein ["to have…
- σ1707Σφαδάζοντεςstruggling[Meaning they who are] being anxious, or being vexed. "[...] even as one struggling within with many words, as a sealed skin of new wine fermenting."
Neighbouring entries
Revision history3 revisions · last 3 Jul 2014
- x-refs; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics, augmented note, added keyword, raised status — William Hutton
- Translated — David Armstrong