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Headword:
Leitourgikê
Adler number: lambda,398
Translated headword: liturgical
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] properly the priestly [sc. kind of service], but by extension the servile [kind].[1]
"Liturgy" [is] properly public service. [sc. The term is derived] from lh/i+ton ["town-hall"] and e)/rgon ["work"].[2]
The Pisidian [writes]: "see that he renders ... [the accounts] of the debts and the interests, simply all the living service."[3]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] leitourgw= ["I serve"]; used with a dative.[4]
Greek Original:Leitourgikê: kuriôs men hê hieratikê, katachrêstikôs de hê doulikê. Leitourgia kuriôs hê dêmosia hupêresia. para to lêïton kai to ergon. Pisidês: hopôs huphexei tôn chreôn kai tôn tokôn hapasan haplôs psuchikên leitourgian. kai Leitourgô: dotikêi.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica: see the references at
Photius lambda156 Theodoridis. For a sense which precedes even 'priestly', see next note.
[2] cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 562.54 (via
Choeroboscus). See also
lambda 397,
alpha 2758,
alpha 4090,
delta 541,
delta 866,
kappa 2562,
tau 974; and generally OCD(4) s.v. 'liturgy, Greek' (by P.J.
Rhodes) and 'liturgy, Roman and Graeco-Roman Egyptian' (by A.J.S. Spawforth).
[3] George of
Pisidia,
Hexaemeron 1480-1, 1485 (= fr.114): quoted already at
epsilon 2123.
[4] Similar entries in syntactical works.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 31 March 2009@22:44:21.
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