Ὑπεψηνισμένη
caprified, impregnated
Translated by Catharine Roth26 Dec 2005Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a female] ready for child-birth; or pregnant. [The terms comes] from the [noun] yh/n ['gall-insect'], which means the worm that occurs in wild figs. The farmers attach branches of this tree to the [cultivated] fig tree, to keep its fruit from falling off.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὑπεψηνισμένη· ἀκμαία πρὸς τόκον· ἢ ἐγκύμων. ἀπὸ τοῦ ψηνός, ὃ σημαίνει τὸν ἐν ταῖς ὀλύνθοις γινόμενον σκώληκα, ὃν οἱ γεωργοὶ ἀφάπτουσι τῶν κλάδων τῆς συκῆς, ὅπως ἂν ὁ καρπὸς αὐτῶν μὴ ἀπορρέῃ.
Betacode
*(upeyhnisme/nh: a)kmai/a pro\s to/kon: h)\ e)gku/mwn. a)po\ tou= yhno/s, o(\ shmai/nei to\n e)n tai=s o)lu/nqois gino/menon skw/lhka, o(\n oi( gewrgoi\ a)fa/ptousi tw=n kla/dwn th=s sukh=s, o(/pws a)\n o( karpo\s au)tw=n mh\ a)porre/h|.
Notes
- The headword is perfect middle-passive participle of
u(poyhni/zw , feminine nominative singular; again at psi 71, and similarly in Apostolius 17.57. It is presumably quoted from somewhere in this feminine form (either the nominative itself or an oblique case), but note that some other lexica -- references at Photius upsilon156 Theodoridis -- have a similar entry couched in masculine nominative plurals.
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Revision history2 revisions · last 24 Nov 2013
- expanded note; tweaking — David Whitehead
- cosmeticules — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth