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Headword: *xi/dra
Adler number: chi,298
Translated headword: unripe groats
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] young ears of grain; or coarse meal; or flour [made] out of pulses.
Or the pulses [sc. themselves]. In a particular sense the [groats] from green barley. [The word] xi/dra is said [to derive] from xei=sqai ["to be scattered; to be heaped up"].
Greek Original:
*xi/dra: sta/xues neogenei=s: h)\ kri/mna: h)\ ta\ e)c o)spri/wn a)/leura. h)\ ta\ o)/spria. i)di/ws de\ ta\ a)po\ xlwra=s kriqh=s. xi/dra de\ ei)/rhtai para\ to\ xei=sqai.
Notes:
The accent of the neuter-plural headword should be circumflex, not acute (as it is again at chi 299 and chi 301). The acute accent is associated with a corruption which mistakes the plural of xi=dron for a feminine singular noun (chi 300); see LSJ s.v. xi=dron at web address 1 below.
For this entry see also (e.g.) Hesychius, ps.-Zonaras 1853, and the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 806 (where the headword occurs).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 March 2008@23:45:31.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 March 2008@07:06:18.
David Whitehead on 11 November 2013@07:49:02.
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