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Headword:
*nwta/rhs
Adler number: nu,565
Translated headword: porter
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] he who puts [things] on his back and carries [them].
Greek Original:*nwta/rhs: o( e)pi\ nw/tou ai)/rwn kai\ basta/zwn.
Notes:
The headword is a compound formed from
nw=ton "back" (cf.
nu 564), and
ai)/rw "I raise up" (cf.
alphaiota 311). Unattested outside lexicography. (Adler notes a similar entry in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.)
Herodian (or Ps.-Herodian)
Partitiones defines
nwta/rios (cf.
nu 505) as
o( barubastakth/s "he who carries heavy things," giving the Latin word a Greek etymology (cf.
nu 570).
Translated by: Robert Leigh on 14 September 2009@07:48:40.
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