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Headword: *foli/des
Adler number: phi,562
Translated headword: horny scales [of reptiles]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning sc. fish-]scales.[1] But by a misuse of language [sc. it means] small wings; for they are like these.
Greek Original:
*foli/des: ai( lepi/des. kataxrhstikw=s de\ ta\ mikra\ ptera/: tou/tois ga\r e)oi/kesan.
Notes:
Same or similar entry (glossing this nominative plural) in other lexica; references at Photius phi249 Theodoridis. Adler compares also a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus, PG 36.1221d (on Gr's phrase w(/sper...dra/kontos kinoume/nou foli/des).
[1] cf. phi 563, phi 564.
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; medicine; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 October 2011@21:31:47.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 4 October 2011@05:50:39.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 4 October 2011@10:32:20.
David Whitehead on 15 December 2013@05:10:03.
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