Θυραῖος

outdoor

Translated by William Hutton14 Feb 2008Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 15 words

[Meaning] alien,¹ one outside the door.² But 'doorish' [is] the shield [sc. of that name].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Θυραῖος· ξένος, ὁ ἔξω τῆς θύρας. Θυρεὸς δὲ τὸ ὅπλον.

Betacode

*qurai=os: ce/nos, o( e)/cw th=s qu/ras. *qureo\s de\ to\ o(/plon.

The point of the entry is to distinguish two words, qurai=os and qureo/s, that would have been homophonous in late Greek apart from accent. The latter refers to a shield that is large and door-shaped (i.e. oblong), like the Roman scutum; see under epsilon 3802, theta 605 and, for example, Polybius 2.30.3 (web address 1). Hesychius theta927 presents much the same distinction in reverse order.
1Adler cites the Ambrosian Lexicon (392) as a comparandum. ↩
2cf. [Herodian], Partitiones 61. ↩

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