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Headword:
*pali/mfhma
Adler number: pi,91
Translated headword: back-speaking [things]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] unpropitious, evil, opposite [ones].
Greek Original:*pali/mfhma: du/sfhma, kaka/, e)nanti/a.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius pi74 Theodoridis, where the editor suggests that the headword -- neuter plural of an adjective compounded from the adverb
palin "back" and the verbal root
phĂȘ- "speak" -- might be quoted from Cyril of Alexandria,
De adoratione 1 (PG 68.161c).
Euripides in a choral passage uses the word in its Doric form, with the sense "recanting":
pali/mfamos a)oida/ Ion 1096 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; poetry; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 July 2001@12:52:25.
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