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Headword:
*filhte/wn
Adler number: phi,335
Translated headword: of thieves
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] of robbers.[1] Either by antiphrasis[2] or by removal of the u: pa/nu filhte/wn ["altogether thieving"],[3] thieves.
Greek Original:*filhte/wn: lh|stw=n. h)/toi kata\ a)nti/frasin h)\ kata\ u(fai/resin tou= u pa/nu filhte/wn, kleptw=n.
Notes:
cf.
Choeroboscus,
Helladius (in
Photius,
Bibliotheca 535b7), Orion [
Author,
Myth].
[1] The headword is genitive plural of
filh/ths (cf.
phi 334,
phi 336), evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 260.65).
[2] That is, from the opposite ("thieves" from "lovers") -- an etymology of the
lucus a non lucendo type.
[3] That is, as if from
u(feilh/ths, posited as from
u(faire/w "filch."
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 December 2010@23:33:10.
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