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Headword:
*ni/fei
Adler number: nu,440
Translated headword: it snows
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] it is snowing.[1]
"And words like snowflakes."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] nifo/menos ["he being snowed upon"], [meaning] he being covered with snow.[3]
Greek Original:*ni/fei: xioni/zei. kai\ e)/pea nifa/dessin e)oiko/ta. kai\ *nifo/menos, xionizo/menos.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica: references at
Photius nu228 Theodoridis, where however this impersonal verb is spelled not
ni/fei but
nei/fei (cf.
nu 294); taken to be quoted from
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1141.
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 3.222 (web address 1). Adler footnotes Bernhardy's observation that this pertains to
nu 437, q.v.
[3]
nu 294. There are instances of this participle in (e.g.)
Plutarch's
Lives.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; historiography; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 November 2000@23:42:02.
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