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Headword: *ma/ktra
Adler number: mu,86
Translated headword: kneading-trough
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a long mortar, in which they knead dough. Aristophanes in Plutus [writes]: "and instead of a kneading-trough a broken side of a cask."
Greek Original:
*ma/ktra: quei/a e)pimh/khs, e)n h(=| ma/ttousi ta\ a)/leura. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: a)nti\ de\ ma/ktras piqa/knhs pleura\n e)rrwgui=an.
Note:
Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 545-6 (but read Attic fida/knhs for the Suda's piqa/knhs), with scholion.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 15 June 2007@10:14:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (note; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 17 June 2007@03:46:13.
David Whitehead on 29 April 2013@04:44:33.

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