Θρανίδιον
mini-bench, small bench
Translated by Ryan Stone29 Feb 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a kind of stool.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θρανίδιον· εἶδος δίφρου.
Betacode
*qrani/dion: ei)=dos di/frou.
Notes
- Same entry in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon (377). See also, for this neuter diminutive, Photius (and, post-Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum) s.v.
qra=nos . Pollux 10.47 appears to say that it appeared in the plural in Aristophanes' lost comedy Islands.
cf. generally theta 451, theta 453, theta 454, theta 45, theta 456.
Linked from2 entries
- θ451Θρανεύσεταιwill be tanned[Meaning he/she/it] will be stretched out. For a bench [is] the footstool where a hide is stretched out. "Your hide will be tanned." Aristophanes [writes thus] in Knights.
- θ454Θρανίτης λεώςtop-bench folkMeaning seafaring. He spoke of the whole from a part. For of those rowing, the ones at the top called thranites, those in the middle zygites, and those at the bottom thalamites.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 12 Dec 2018
- betacode — Catharine Roth
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ryan Stone