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Headword:
*ko/ruza
Adler number: kappa,2119
Translated headword: snot
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also [sc. attested is the participle] "snivelling", [meaning] someone who has become stupid; or discharging mucus. Also [sc. attested is] "[him] snivelling".[1]
Greek Original:*ko/ruza. kai\ *koruzw=n, memwrame/nos: h)\ muca/zwn. kai\ *koruzw=nta.
Notes:
For the unglossed headword see also
kappa 2120: LSJ s.v.
ko/ruza,
koruza/w I (literal meaning), II ("metaph., drivel").
[1] The nominative form of this present participle is attested is medical writers, including Galen. The accusative form occurs in (e.g.)
Plato,
Republic 343A and Lucian,
Jupiter Tragoedus 15 (also Lucian,
Dialogues of the Dead 19.2). The participle in the accusative is also glossed with the verbs given in
Lexicon de Atticis Nominibus 100, and the
scholia to
Plato.
Hesychius likewise glosses the participle in the nominative as
memwrame/nos.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; medicine
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 9 February 2009@19:08:47.
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