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Headword:
*numfeu/tria
Adler number: nu,592
Translated headword: bridesmaid
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] she who is sent along with the bride by the [sc. bride's] parents. Also the newly-married [woman] and the wife; also an older woman, Penelope and Helen. Among Athenians also the mother of Zeus and the goddess at the waters.
Greek Original:*numfeu/tria: h( sumpempome/nh u(po\ tw=n gone/wn th=| nu/mfh|. kai\ h( neo/gamos de\ kai\ h( gameth/: kai\ presbute/ra, *phnelo/ph kai\ h( *(ele/nh. para\ *)aqhnai/ois kai\ h( tou= *dio\s mh/thr kai\ h( qea\ h( e)pi\ tw=n u(da/twn.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius nu283 Theodoridis (
Hesychius nu715 has the first sentence only). Bernhardy added
oi(=on h( "like" before 'Penelope'; Naber, now followed by Theodoridis, preferred
w(s.
The headword occurs in
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1056 (web address 1), but this (odd) material is not in the
scholia thereto.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; mythology; religion; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 October 2009@00:49:38.
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