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Search results for pi,948 in Adler number:
Headword:
*pelioi/
Adler number: pi,948
Translated headword: livid
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] black/dark, sallow.
Greek Original:*pelioi/: me/lanes, w)xroi/.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius pi552 Theodoridis. The headword is masculine nominative plural of this adjective. It must be quoted from somewhere, perhaps from the medical writer
Diphilos of
Siphnos (C3 BCE), quoted in
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 22.61D (2.59 Kaibel): one risks death by eating mushrooms which are "black and livid and hard".
cf. generally
pi 945,
pi 946.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 May 2004@05:54:09.
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