Σπείρου

[of a] piece of cloth

Translated by Catharine Roth19 Apr 2012Vetting: high4 revisions

1 note · 13 words

[Meaning] of a cloak, of a ragged garment.¹ The nominative [singular is] spei=ron.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σπείρου· ἱματίου, ῥάκους. ἡ εὐθεῖα τὸ σπεῖρον.

Betacode

*spei/rou: i(mati/ou, r(a/kous. h( eu)qei=a to\ spei=ron.

Notes (1)

Similarly glossed in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and in a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 4.245 (where the accusative plural spei=ra occurs).
cf. sigma 932.
1Genitive singular, quoted very probably from Homer, Odyssey 2.102 (verse repeated at 19.147 and 24.137), about the shroud which Penelope is weaving for Laertes (and unweaving at night). See web address 1. ↩

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

σ932ΣπειράωI coil[Contracted to] speirw=, out of which [come] also sunespeirame/nos ["contracted"] and [the phrase] speirw/menos toi=s r(aki/ois ["being coiled in the rags"].

Neighbouring entries

σ932ΣπειράωI coil σ933Σπεῖραιcoils, twists, ropes, maniples σ934Σπείρου[of a] piece of cloth σ935ΣπείρωνοςSpeiron's σ936Σπείσασθαιto make libations

Revision history4 revisions · last 5 Apr 2014

5 Apr 2014coding — Catharine Roth
31 Dec 2013Revised — David Whitehead
24 Oct 2013tweaked note — Catharine Roth
22 Apr 2012more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
19 Apr 2012Translated — Catharine Roth