Also [sc. attested is] 'Grecian tongue'.
*(ellh/nios strato/s. kai\ *(ellh/nios glw=ssa.
Adler cites as a source two entries (597, 673) in the unedited
Ambrosian Lexicon. The aim would seem to be to illustrate an alternative way of saying "Greek" (as opposed to the common
*(Ellhniko/s; cf.
epsilon 838).
The phrase in the supplementary lemma appends the same form of the adjective to a feminine noun, which would obviously suggest that the adjective is of the two-termination variety. However, if that was true by the time of these lexica, it was not so earlier: see LSJ s.v., citing e.g. Athena Hellania in
Euripides,
Hippolytus 1121.
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