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Headword:
*masw/menos
Adler number: mu,252
Translated headword: chewing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A participle of a verb] of the 2[nd] conjugation of the contract verbs. From
masw=, masa=|s ["I chew, you chew"],[1] like
gelw=, gela=|s ["I laugh, you laugh"]. [It occurs] in
Aristophanes in
Plutus.[2]
*masw/menos: b# suzugi/as tw=n perispwme/nwn. a)po\ tou= masw=, masa=|s: w(s gelw=, gela=|s. para\ *)aristofa/nei e)n *plou/tw|.
Notes:
[1] In Classical Greek (outside lexicography) the verb is middle voice, as in the headword participle itself. The first active instance extant is in the
Sibylline Oracles 3.329, but active use was extremely rare until Modern Greek.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 321 (web address 1); also twice elsewhere in this author (
Knights 717,
Wasps 780).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 21 April 2009@01:49:59.
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