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Headword: *(amorbo/s
Adler number: alpha,1622
Translated headword: attendant, shepherd
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one rushing together [a(/ma ... o(rmw=n] with someone; a(mormo/s and [from this comes] a(morbo/s.
Greek Original:
*(amorbo/s: o( a(/ma tini\ o(rmw=n: a(mormo\s kai\ a(morbo/s.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras; similar one, post-Suda, in Etymologicum Magnum 85.24. The headword is attested in Hellenistic and later poetry (Callimachus, Nicander, Oppian).
Despite the etymology suggested here, the headword itself and several other words related to it all have a smooth breathing: see LSJ (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Oliver Phillips ✝ on 20 March 2001@23:40:56.
Vetted by:
Patrick T. Rourke (Fixed link) on 21 March 2001@08:48:08.
Patrick T. Rourke (Corrected own typo) on 21 March 2001@08:51:58.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 7 June 2002@07:54:00.
David Whitehead (modified notes; betacode and other cosmetics) on 15 February 2012@08:12:44.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation and link) on 20 February 2012@01:54:08.
David Whitehead on 16 June 2015@12:13:19.
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