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Headword: *nukti/bios
Adler number: nu,581
Translated headword: night-living, nocturnal
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] one who passes his time at night as if in the day.
Greek Original:
*nukti/bios: o( e)n nukti\ w(s e)n h(me/ra| dia/gwn.
Note:
The headword is unattested outside lexicography (references at Photius nu276 Theodoridis), where it is always glossed thus or similarly. Hesychius (nu699 Latte) adds an additional comment: "such are the beasts and most of the birds."
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 June 2005@19:24:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (note) on 18 June 2005@06:35:24.
David Whitehead on 18 June 2013@04:47:17.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 2 December 2020@00:29:04.
Catharine Roth (another keyword) on 2 December 2020@00:30:50.
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