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Headword: *kuma/tia
Adler number: kappa,2676
Translated headword: cymatia, moldings, volutes
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[A term for] the overlays/projections [used] among builders and stoneworkers.
Greek Original:
*kuma/tia: ai( u(peroxai\ para\ te/ktosi kai\ liqopoioi=s.
Notes:
= Photius, Lexicon kappa1197 Theodoridis (and elsewhere); cf. Hesychius kappa4530. Probably, as Latte suggests there, deriving from commentary on the Septuagint, where this neuter plural occurs twice in the description of Noah's Ark (Exodus 25:11 of the Ark itself, 25:24 of its table).
cf. generally under pi 915 (= tau 207).
Keywords: architecture; definition; mythology; religion; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 April 2008@03:27:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified tr and note; another keyword) on 8 April 2008@04:28:44.
David Whitehead (x-refs) on 8 April 2008@04:29:55.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 20 March 2013@08:53:05.
David Whitehead on 2 May 2016@11:42:18.
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