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Headword: *)ahdi/a
Adler number: alpha,648
Translated headword: distaste, lack of pleasure
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] lack of appetite.[1]
But a)eidi/a ["formlessness"] [means] shapelessness.[2]
Greek Original:
*)ahdi/a: h( a)noreci/a. *)aeidi/a de\ h( a)morfi/a.
Notes:
cf. generally alpha 647, alpha 649.
[1] The glossing term (also, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon) is anorexia, which had a broader sense then than it does now.
[2] See already under alpha 614. (In the Suda's time these two words would have been pronounced identically.)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 March 2001@08:09:49.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note and keyword) on 17 March 2001@04:13:08.
William Hutton (Corrected punctuation, augmented note and added keyword) on 18 March 2001@17:55:20.
David Whitehead (typo and other cosmetics) on 15 August 2006@04:35:05.
David Whitehead (more notes) on 13 January 2012@03:24:14.
David Whitehead on 1 May 2015@04:23:06.

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