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Search results for alpha,3195 in Adler number:
Headword:
*)/apion
Adler number: alpha,3195
Translated headword: pear
Vetting Status: high
Translation: *)/apion [is] neuter, but
a)/pios feminine.
Greek Original:*)/apion ou)de/teron, *)/apios de\ qhluko/n.
Notes:
(Entry lacking, Adler reports, in several of the manuscripts.)
The name of this fruit follows the regular pattern: the fruit is a neuter noun, but the tree is a feminine second-declension noun.
cf. generally
alpha 3194 and especially
alpha 3197.
Keywords: botany; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 May 2000@11:49:16.
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