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Headword:
Skôramis
Adler number: sigma,692
Translated headword: nightstool, commode
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A "chamber-pot" [amis] [is that] in which they urinate, but a "nightstool" [skoramis] [is that] in which they defecate. "[...] so that I not become a comic nightstool".[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] skwropoiw= ["I use a nightstool"], [formed] out of it.[2]
Greek Original:Skôramis: amis men en hôi ourousi, skôramis de en hôi apopatousin. hina mê genômai skôramis kômôidikê. kai Skôropoiô ex autou.
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 8 October 2000@22:01:59.
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