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Headword:
Katôgeion
Adler number: kappa,1105
Translated headword: underground
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the [sc. Attic] masculine and feminine,[1] [this is spelled] with a short e [epsilon] and a long o [omega], [sc. like] o( a)nw/gews kai\ h( a)nw/gews ["above ground"].[2]
[sc. The latter adjective is] also [attested in the neuter, as] a)nw/gewn.[3]
Greek Original:Katôgeion: epi thêlukou kai arsenikou dia tou e psilou kai ô megalou, ho anôgeôs kai hê anôgeôs. kai to anôgeôn.
Notes:
[1] The unglossed headword itself is neuter.
[2] The distinction between the Attic second declension -
gews and the Late -
geios is dialectal and not gender-based. See LSJ s.v.
katw/gaios at web address 1.
[3] From
alpha 2582. See also
kappa 1106.
*katw/geios first appears in Herodian the grammarian (not as a hypothetical form:
De prosodia catholica vol. 3.1, p. 191), and
Porphyry (
De antro nympharum 8.16); it is the form that has survived into Modern Greek (
katw/gi, katw/i).
*)anw/geios does not appear before
Eustathius (
Commentary on the Iliad vol.2 p.301); it has likewise survived into Modern Greek (
a)nw/gi, a)nw/i).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keyword: dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 6 October 2008@07:54:12.
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