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Headword: Apion
Adler number: alpha,3195
Translated headword: pear
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
*)/apion [is] neuter, but a)/pios feminine.
Greek Original:
Apion oudeteron, Apios de thêlukon.
Notes:
(Entry lacking, Adler reports, in several of the manuscripts.)
The name of this fruit follows the regular pattern: the fruit is a neuter noun, but the tree is a feminine second-declension noun.
cf. generally alpha 3194 and especially alpha 3197.
Keywords: botany; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 May 2000@11:49:16.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (minor cosmetics) on 16 March 2001@08:15:11.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 30 March 2012@06:31:24.
Catharine Roth (betacode) on 31 March 2012@01:49:41.
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