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Headword:
Stenoleschein
peri
kapnou
Adler number: sigma,1038
Translated headword: to quibble about smoke
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [verb that means] to talk subtly: for smoke [is] thin and weak. The [verb] stenolesxei=n is taken from the [adjective] steno/n ["narrow"].
Greek Original:Stenoleschein peri kapnou: to leptologein: stenos gar kai amenênos ho kapnos. para de to stenon eilêptai to stenoleschein.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 March 2014@00:49:57.
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