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Headword:
Kômêtis
Adler number: kappa,2263
Translated headword: village-woman
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the feminine [meaning] a neighbor.[1] For the quarters [sc. of a town] are [its]
kw=ma; hence also [the verb]
e)pikwma/sai ["to revel"].[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: "but here comes my village-woman". As Lysistratos says.[3]
Greek Original:Kômêtis: thêlukôs hê geitôn. kôma gar ta amphoda. enthen kai epikômasai. Aristophanês: plên hê g' emê kômêtis hêd' exerchetai. hôs Lusistratos phêsi.
Notes:
[1] See LSJ at web address 1 below.
[2] cf.
kappa 2261. There is no neuter noun *
kw=mon, but
kw/mh is "village, neighborhood" and
kw=mos is "revel, carousal."
[3]
Aristophanes Lysistrata 5 (see web address 2 below). The speaker is actually the woman Lysistrata.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 January 2001@17:39:36.
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