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Headword: *)/azwros
Adler number: alpha,603
Translated headword: Azoros, Azorus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Proper name.[1] It also indicates well-mixed[2] wine.[3]
Greek Original:
*)/azwros: o)/noma ku/rion. shmai/nei de\ kai\ to\n eu)/kraton oi)=non.
Notes:
[1] Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.: "Azoros, a city of Pelagonia, of the so-called Tripolis, as Strabo [7.7.9] says; founded by a certain Azoros." There was an Azoros -- the present-day Vouvala -- in the mountains of Perrhaibia (northern Thessaly; Barrington Atlas Map 55 grid C1), but the Azoros of Strabo and Steph. Byz. is too far to the north to be the same place.
[2] Or well-tempered, mild, lukewarm.
[3] Adjective and gloss unattested outside lexicography
References:
Charles Autran, Introduction à l'étude critique du nom propre grec (Paris 1930) 92
Der Neue Pauly s.v.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography
Translated by: Carl Widstrand on 20 November 1999@11:43:23.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified and augmented notes; added keywords; restorative (and other) cosmetics) on 6 May 2002@11:32:12.
David Whitehead (augmented note 1, at the suggestion of Nicholas Fincher) on 8 September 2004@07:56:05.
David Whitehead on 1 August 2011@09:50:29.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 7 December 2014@00:15:47.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 7 December 2014@00:17:03.

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