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Headword:
Κᾶλα
παλαίθετα
Adler number: kappa,201
Translated headword: woods long-positioned
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Dry timbers, put aside a long while ago. For "wood" is timber.[1] From this [word] also [comes] "wood-foot", a wooden foot.[2]
Greek Original:Κᾶλα παλαίθετα: ξηρὰ ξύλα, ἐκ πολλοῦ ἀποτεθέντα χρόνου. κᾶλον γὰρ τὸ ξύλον. ἐξ οὗ καὶ καλόπους, ὁ ξύλινος ποῦς.
Notes:
The headword phrase, in the neuter plural, is quoted from
Callimachus,
Hekale fr.242.
[1] cf.
kappa 186,
kappa 195,
kappa 211,
kappa 247.
[2] This is a "cobbler's last" or "shoemaker's last", a foot carved from wood and used by shoemakers as a form for fashioning or repairing shoes. See web address 1 below for the LSJ entry on
καλόπους .
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; clothing; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 March 2008@05:01:54.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 10 March 2008@09:18:48.
No. of records found: 1
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