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Headword: Μαγγάνα
Adler number: mu,2
Translated headword: wine-cask
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Note] that Italians call the wine-container made of wood a μαγγάνα . See under γαῦλος .[1]

Greek Original:

Μαγγάνα: ὅτι τὸ οἰνηρὸν ἀγγεῖον ἐκ ξύλων κατεσκευασμένον μαγγάναν Ἰταλοὶ ὀνομάζουσιν. ζήτει ἐν τῷ γαῦλος.

Notes:

This entry is absent from MSS A and F, and appears as marginalia to MS A, M; in V it occurs after mu 10.
[1] gamma 73, whence the current entry seems to be drawn. This cross-reference is absent from the marginalia of MS A and V. This meaning for the word is otherwise unattested. Elsewhere it means 'magic charm', 'catapult' or, as a proper name, the name of a building in Constantinople.

Keywords: agriculture; botany; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 October 2005@01:38:23.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (cosmeticules) on 2 October 2005@04:15:39.
William Hutton (tweaked hw and tr, augmented notes, added keywords) on 15 July 2009@14:47:45.

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