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Headword: *(ra/damnos
Adler number: rho,14
Translated headword: bough
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a delicate shoot; or a slip.[1]
The branch of the tree which is covered with leaves and makes shade is a r(a/damnos. [sc. The term comes] from easily [r(a|di/ws] being overcome [dama/zesqai] by heat or for some other reason, as being tender and prominent.[2]
Greek Original:
*(ra/damnos: blasto\s trufero/s: h)\ kla/dos. *(ra/damno/s e)stin o( toi=s fu/llois komw=n a)kremw\n tou= de/ndrou, kai\ skia\n e)ktelw=n. para\ to\ r(a|di/ws dama/zesqai u(po\ kau/swnos h)/ tinos a)/llou ai)ti/ou, w(s a(palo\s kai\ proe/xwn.
Notes:
cf. omicron 619, omicron 495.
[1] Same or similar glosses in other lexica; references at Photius rho18, where Theodoridis mentions (without positively endorsing) Alberti's view that the headword comes from Job 14.7 LXX.
[2] The source of this material (not in other lexica) is unknown.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 September 2010@23:13:05.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 September 2010@05:20:31.
David Whitehead on 23 August 2011@10:16:16.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; another keyword) on 24 October 2013@09:17:43.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 13 June 2014@21:48:46.
David Whitehead (coding) on 25 May 2016@05:54:40.

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