Meaning to collect vegetables; [sc. formed] like to wood-gather and to kindling-gather.
*laxani/zesqai: a)nti\ tou= la/xana sulle/gein: w(s culi/zesqai kai\ frugani/zesqai.
Same entry in
Photius,
Lexicon lambda124 Theodoridis; cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 558.14. This middle voice of the verb
laxani/zein is otherwise unattested.
Greek
la/xanon, vegetable (
lambda 164), yields a number of compounds (cf.
lambda 160,
lambda 161,
lambda 163), more than English. English 'graze', originally related to 'grass', is an example of the process, but it is really impossible to illustrate the Greek compounds, each a single word, in English. For kindling see
phi 749.
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