Suda On Line menu Search

Home
Search results for tau,856 in Adler number:
Greek display:    
Headword: *twqasmo/s
Adler number: tau,856
Translated headword: jeering, ridicule
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] twqastiko\n gela/sas ["laughing jeeringly"],[1] meaning mockingly, fawningly, derisively, abusively.[2]
Greek Original:
*twqasmo/s. kai/, *twqastiko\n gela/sas, a)nti\ tou= skwptiko/n, qwpeutiko/n, xleuastiko/n, loidorhtiko/n.
Notes:
For the unglossed headword, cf. Pollux 9.148, ps.-Herodian 135.
[1] Adler suggested Aelian, but a TLG search shows that the source is the Emperor Julian, Misopogon 20.21 Lacombrade.
[2] For these glosses cf. generally tau 855.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 February 2011@12:22:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 25 February 2011@02:58:14.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 14 January 2014@09:18:55.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 28 March 2014@23:51:55.
Find      

Test Database Real Database

(Try these tips for more productive searches.)
No. of records found: 1    Page 1

End of search