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Headword: *)akri/zw
Adler number: alpha,983
Translated headword: I tip, I top
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The [verb that means] I cut [off] the tip/top.
Greek Original:
*)akri/zw: to\ a)/kron ko/ptw.
Notes:
Rare verb derived from a)/kros (tip, top): LSJ entry at web address 1.
The present glossing is only one of the attested (or possible) senses it can bear: the participle a)kri/zwn in Euripides fr. 570 seems to mean "going on tiptoe" (cf, LSJ s.v.); and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 21.12 understand it as "eat off the tops" (cf. alpha 985).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; tragedy
Translated by: Oliver Phillips ✝ on 8 July 2000@15:28:02.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 5 June 2002@07:15:46.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords) on 31 January 2012@06:38:57.
Catharine Roth (supplemented note) on 11 November 2013@01:33:39.
David Whitehead on 20 May 2015@02:54:46.

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