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Headword:
*xre/os
Adler number: chi,459
Translated headword: debt
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a loan. Also [sc. attested is the form] xrei=os.
Greek Original:*xre/os: to\ da/neion. kai\ *xrei=os.
Notes:
For another (more general) sense of this headword see
chi 458; for the 'debt' sense see also
chi 462,
chi 463,
chi 464.
The form
xrei=os is common in epic; see e.g.
Homer,
Iliad 11.686 (web address 1 below) and the
scholia thereto. See also
Hesychius s.v.
xrei=os, and
Etymologicum Magnum 814.36.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; epic
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 April 2008@19:38:41.
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