Σωτέος

to be saved

Translated by David Whitehead22 May 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

6 words

[Meaning someone/something] worthy of being saved.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σωτέος· σωθῆναι ἄξιος.

Betacode

*swte/os: swqh=nai a)/cios.

= Hesychius sigma3099, Synagoge sigma448, Photius sigma933 Theodoridis. The headword, attested only in lexicography, is evidently a variant of swste/os, a verbal adjective connoting obligation from sw/|zw ('save': sigma 827).

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