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Headword:
*)akoi/ths
Adler number: alpha,1040
Translated headword: bedfellow, husband
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the masculine gender [meaning] the husband. But a)/koitis in the feminine [means] the wife.[1] And the [accusative] plural is ta\s a)koi/tis ["the wives"].[2]
Greek Original:*)akoi/ths: a)rsenikw=s o( a)nh/r. *)/akoitis de\ qhlukw=s, h( gunh/. kai\ to\ plhquntiko\n ta\s a)koi/tis.
Notes:
Both of these are poetical words, occurring in epic, lyric, and tragedy.
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in two entries in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (857, 996); and cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 50.7-9.
[2] (Quoted, in all probability, from its only appearance in
Homer:
Odyssey 10.7.) With long iota in the ending (from *
-ins).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 April 2000@01:13:48.
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