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Headword:
*ai)wrou=ntai
Adler number: alphaiota,265
Translated headword: they are hung up, they depend
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] they are suspended.[1]
"Upon whom the affairs of the Carthaginians were depending."[2]
Greek Original:*ai)wrou=ntai: kre/mantai. ei)s o(\n ta\ tw=n *karxhdoni/wn ai)wrei=to pra/gmata.
Notes:
The headword is present indicative middle/passive, third person plural, of
ai)wre/w, evidently extracted from somewhere (other than the quotation given here); extant possibilities are all post-classical.
For this verb, cf.
alphaiota 262,
alphaiota 264,
eta 415,
eta 416,
epsilon 1898. According to Chantraine,
ai)wre/w is an iterative/intensive from
a)ei/rw, with an expressive reduplication and a long o vocalism of the root: *
vai-vwre/w.
[1] Same glossing in other lexica.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque ed. 2 (Paris 2009) 22
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 February 2003@00:59:21.
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