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Headword:
*kerdale/os
Adler number: kappa,1382
Translated headword: wily
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] subtle, cunning. [1] For the vixen [is] wily.[2]
Also [sc. attested is] "wily one".[3]
Also [sc. attested is the comparative] kerdaleôteros, [spelled] with a long o.[4]
Greek Original:*kerdale/os: poiki/los, panou=rgos. kerdale/h ga\r h( a)lw/phc. kai\ *kerdw/. kai\ *kerdalew/teros dia\ tou= w mega/lou.
Notes:
See also
kappa 1383,
kappa 1388,
kappa 1390.
[1] Literally "profitable"; the association with cunning (as profit-seeking) is as old as
Homer (e.g.
Odyssey 13.291; LSJ. s.v. I).
[2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; see the references at
Photius kappa595 Theodoridis. A longstanding proverbial association, dating from
Archilochus 89.5 (LSJ s.v. I.1.b); cf.
kappa 1391,
kappa 1148 (on the adjective
kerdw=|os).
[3] Glossed in more detail in
kappa 1391.
[4] A reminder of the rule that comparatives of second declension adjectives with a short penult lengthen omicron to omega: Smyth §314.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 1 November 2008@23:43:19.
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