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Headword:
Phoinikious
Adler number: phi,793
Translated headword: purplish
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning ruddy. It has a circumflex accent by the rule of the simple [vowels contracting] into -ous. And from the genitive[1] foi/nikos comes foiniko/eis,[2] [hence] foiniki/oes[3] by metathesis and foinikiou=s by contraction.
Greek Original:Phoinikious: anti tou purros. perispatai de tôn eis ous haplôn tôi logôi. kai esti para tên phoinikos genikên, phoinikoeis, phoinikioes en huperthesei, phoinikious en sunairesei.
Notes:
The headword is an adjective (in the masculine singular nominative) equivalent in meaning to the more common adjectives
foini/kios and
foini/kous, from which LSJ speculates the current adjective was formed by "contamination." The entry derives from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 272, where the headword occurs. See also
phi 783.
[1] That is, the genitive not of the headword but of the noun
foi=nic from which it derives.
[2] Yet another adjective from the same root, attested in
Homer (e.g.
Iliad 23.717) and elsewhere.
[3] This form is not attested elsewhere and is probably hypothetical, imagined as a missing link between the other two adjectives.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 February 2014@11:58:58.
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