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Headword: *)/akmhnos
Adler number: alpha,907
Translated headword: fasting
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] untasting.[1]
"Fasting from supper."[2]
Greek Original:
*)/akmhnos: a)/geustos. a)/kmhnon do/rpoio.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras.
[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 19.163, where the headword occurs. Likewise or similarly in other lexica. According to the scholia, the adjective is derived from an Aeolic noun a)/kmh (sic). Hesychius gives the noun as a)/kma meaning "fasting."
[2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 312.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 February 2000@03:31:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 4 June 2002@06:37:23.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 26 January 2012@06:14:07.
David Whitehead on 13 May 2015@03:04:43.
Catharine Roth (expanded note, added a keyword) on 13 May 2015@20:07:07.

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