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Headword:
*ku/aqos
Adler number: kappa,2574
Translated headword: cup
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] scooper, a liquid measure of [ = equivalent to] 2 ounces.[1]
Or a spoonful.
Aristophanes [writes]: "you will quickly call for a cup."[2] In order to apply it to your jaws; so badly will you get your eye blackened and be blinded by us. For they fill a cup with hot [water] and attach it to swellings by way of treatment.
So 'cup' [comes] from the [verb]
xu/w ["I pour"], [hence]
xu/aqos, and
ku/aqos.
*ku/aqos: a)ntlhth/rion, me/tron u(grou= ou)ggiw=n b#. h)\ koxlia/rion. *)aristofa/nhs: ku/aqon ai)th/seis ta/xa. i(/na prosqh=|s tai=s gna/qois: ou(/tws u(pwpiesqh/sh| kai\ tufqh/sh| u(f' h(mw=n. gemi/zousi ga\r ku/aqon qermou= kai\ proskollw=si toi=s oi)dh/masi kai\ qerapeu/ousi. *ku/aqos ou)=n para\ to\ xu/w, xu/aqos, kai\ ku/aqos.
Notes:
[1]
Synagoge kappa479 =
Photius,
Lexicon kappa1134 Theodoridis.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 444 (web address 1), with comments from the
scholia.
Web address 1
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Translated by: William Hutton on 28 April 2008@07:24:26.
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