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Headword: *)/aknhstis
Adler number: alpha,911
Translated headword: chine, small (of the back)
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the backbone. [sc. Etymologically the word means] that which one cannot easily scratch [knh/qesqai].
Greek Original:
*)/aknhstis: h( r(a/xis. h(\n ou) du/natai/ tis eu)ko/lws knh/qesqai.
Notes:
Similar entries in some other lexica, including Hesychius (where Latte cites Homer, Odyssey 10.161) and Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon.
The word is also found without the initial alpha. (Its earliest appearance, in Homer [above], can accommodate either reading: kat' a)/knhstin or kata\ knh=stin.)
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; medicine
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 November 2000@16:21:03.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 4 June 2002@07:09:57.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 26 January 2012@06:40:15.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, added keyword) on 30 January 2012@20:21:24.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 29 March 2015@23:05:15.
David Whitehead on 13 May 2015@03:06:46.
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