Τεμαχί

piecemeal

Translated by David Whitehead11 May 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

dialects, grammar, and etymology

2 words

An adverb.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τεμαχί· ἐπίρρημα.

Betacode

*temaxi/: e)pi/rrhma.

Notes

Found only here (and, according to Adler, in a comparable entry in the Ambrosian Lexicon), but for its meaning cf. tau 295.

Linked from2 entries

π2175Πῶμαlid[Meaning a] cover.
τ295Τεμάχηslices[A term] applying to meats and fish and to cakes, but no longer to pea-soups. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "slices of large congers." In application to other things, such as cheese, [the appropriate term is] piece.…

Neighbouring entries

τ294Τελχιταίνειbehaves like one of the Telchines τ295Τεμάχηslices τ296Τεμαχίpiecemeal τ297Τεμένηprecincts τ298ΤεμενίτηςTemenite

Revision history5 revisions · last 27 May 2016

27 May 2016Revised — David Whitehead
8 Jan 2014Revised — David Whitehead
12 Aug 2011expanded note — David Whitehead
12 May 2005note — David Whitehead
11 May 2005set status — Catharine Roth
11 May 2005Translated — David Whitehead