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Headword: *surbhneu/s
Adler number: sigma,1661
Translated headword: noisy
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one who/that which is] rowdy. [sc. The term comes] from those playing the pipes in a disruptive way; or [meaning] a poor man by dint of having his pipe-cases and quivers empty. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'chorus of Noisies', [meaning] a disturbed and swinish one; from one calling to the pigs.[1]
Hence the proverb 'Noisy chorus' has arisen, in reference to disorderly choruses.[2]
Greek Original:
*surbhneu/s: o( taraxw/dhs. a)po\ tw=n au)lou/ntwn meta\ qoru/bou: h)\ pe/nhs dia\ to\ ta\s au)loqh/kas kai\ fare/tras kena\s e)/xein. kai\ *surbhne/wn xoro/s, o( tetaragme/nos kai\ suw/dhs: a)po\ tou= toi=s u(si\n e)pifwnoume/nou. dio\ te/taktai h( paroimi/a, *surbh/nhs xoro/s, e)pi\ tw=n a)ta/ktwn xorw=n.
Notes:
cf. sigma 1273, sigma 1656, sigma 1660.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius sigma829 Theodoridis.
[2] cf. Zenobius 6.1.
Keywords: daily life; definition; economics; ethics; imagery; meter and music; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 May 2014@06:52:45.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 26 May 2014@10:44:31.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 27 May 2014@03:26:44.
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