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Headword: *)/anemos
Adler number: alpha,2258
Translated headword: air, wind
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the breath[1] of the wind. And the element, in which the wind blows.
Also [sc. attested is the diminutive] a)nemi/dion. Plato in Theaetetus [writes]: "[...] it happens [to be] a productive little wind".[2]
Greek Original:
*)/anemos: to\ pneu=ma tou= a)ne/mou. kai\ to\ stoixei=on, e)n w(=| pne/ei o( a)/nemos. kai\ *)anemi/dion. *pla/twn e)n *qeaith/tw|: go/nimon a)nemi/dion tugxa/nei.
Notes:
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
[2] Plato, Theaetetus 151E, but oddly garbled: not only is the word there the adjective a)nemiai=on, "windy", rather than the noun a)nemi/dion, but the Suda omits "or"; "[... whether] it happens to be productive or windy", i.e. empty. Same mistake at upsilon 424, from where this addendum to the present entry is copied.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 June 2000@11:30:26.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Modified translation and note, added keyword.) on 15 January 2001@10:41:46.
David Whitehead (modified translation; reshaped notes; cosmetics) on 15 January 2001@11:16:57.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 4 March 2012@05:17:14.
Catharine Roth (deleted defective link) on 2 November 2013@00:54:05.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 2 November 2013@04:44:55.
David Whitehead on 13 July 2015@10:42:38.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 1 December 2022@01:09:25.

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