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Headword: *)akrokelainio/wn
Adler number: alpha,1004
Translated headword: growing black at the top
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] blackening the top of the wave.
Greek Original:
*)akrokelainio/wn: to\ a)/kron tou= ku/matos melai/nwn.
Note:
Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 21.249, where the headword -- present participle, masculine nominative singular, of a)krokelainia/w -- occurs (of the river-god Scamander in his duel with Achilles).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; mythology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 March 2000@09:51:08.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Added citation and keyword.) on 9 June 2000@22:46:27.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 15 June 2001@08:28:07.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 29 March 2006@08:08:52.
David Whitehead on 31 January 2012@09:22:19.
David Whitehead on 22 May 2015@03:09:03.

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