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Headword: *xali/ma
Adler number: chi,22
Translated headword: loose woman
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a prostitute. [The term comes] from loosening [xala=sqai] the body as a result of drink, or of madness.
Greek Original:
*xali/ma: h( po/rnh. a)po\ tou= xala=sqai to\ sw=ma a)po\ me/qhs, h)\ mani/as.
Note:
Hesychius and Pausanias the Atticist give the word as xalima/s, with the plural xalima/des. It is cited as referring to the Bacchae in Aeschylus (fr. 448 Radt).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; imagery; tragedy; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 November 2001@11:05:57.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 6 September 2002@01:19:44.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 26 July 2003@11:31:59.
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