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Headword: Halipedon
Adler number: alpha,1196
Translated headword: salt-flat
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] what was once was sea but became a plain again and is cultivated. So properly it is a sea-side plain, but by linguistic misuse every [type of plain].
Greek Original:
Halipedon: to teôs men thalassa, authis de pedion gegonos kai êrotriômenon. kuriôs men oun to para thalassan pedion, katachrêstikôs de pan.
Notes:
Entry out of alphabetical order here. See also alpha 1240.
Similar material in Etymologicum Magnum 64.45-47.
See also alpha 1240.
Keywords: agriculture; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 May 2000@23:57:15.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note) on 29 January 2001@05:21:25.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 13 June 2002@05:09:42.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 6 October 2005@11:30:24.
David Whitehead (another note; cosmetics) on 5 February 2012@09:10:48.
David Whitehead (another note) on 22 January 2014@08:40:34.
David Whitehead on 31 May 2015@10:38:53.
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