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Headword:
*kei/rei
Adler number: kappa,1478
Translated headword: devours, tears
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] eats, eats up.
Greek Original:*kei/rei: e)sqi/ei, katesqi/ei.
Notes:
The verb
kei/rw literally is "to crop, to cut down"; the sense "devour" is listed in LSJ s.v. III.1, for
Homer,
Iliad 11.560 (with the form
kei/rei, as here) and 21.204,
Odyssey 11.578.
The entry is the same in
Photius,
Lexicon kappa520 Theodoridis and elsewhere; the glosses differ in
Hesychius and the scholiasts. See also
kappa 1420.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 13 November 2008@08:41:19.
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