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Headword: Ὄα
Adler number: omicron,1
Translated headword: Service-tree
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
A kind of tree producing fruits on the upper branches, resembling small apples.[1]
Opora ["fruit"], the service-tree.[2]
Greek Original:
Ὄα: ἀκροδρύων εἶδος, μήλοις μικροῖς ἐμφερές. ὀπώρα, ἡ ὄα.
Notes:
Sorbus domestica. Manuscripts of Theophrastus have various spellings of the tree-name: see LSJ s.v. ὄα (A), web address 1.
[1] Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon; also Photius.
[2] Or "service-berry"? But the fruit should be to oon (also variously spelled), mentioned at Plato, Symposium 190D. For opora in a more general sense cf. omicron 481, omicron 482, omicron 483, omicron 484.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; food
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 September 2002@21:19:53.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added x-refs; cosmetics) on 1 October 2002@03:19:10.
Catharine Roth (changed betacode to italics) on 1 October 2002@11:04:26.
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